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Silhouette Trading Cards

Posted Saturday, December 17, 2011 // 10:21 a.m.

Recently, as a class we had a choice assignment that was either making a non-objective piece or incorporating screen-printing and silhouette piece to make trading cards or a big screen-print. What I chose to do (if you couldn't tell by my title) was to make trading cards.

I idea behind these pieces was that common-curtesy was declining in our society, and that it was essentially going 'extinct'. I took common words and phrases that are considered polite and then changed them so I had them in the form of animal shapes. By doing this, it would be much easier to show 'extinct' because then I could incorporate weapons used to kill the animals (which would also have the double meaning of 'killing' the politeness). To accomplish the finished work, I had to screen-print the words then with a red marker, color in the weapons. Screen-printing the words were a lot harder than I thought it would be because first I had to cut out the shape on contact paper which was very tricky because I had a lot of curves and wanted to keep them instead of sharp edges. Something else that was also tricky was how all the letters had to connect a certain way or else you would end up with missing letters and random spaces. When it came time to actually screen-print, I believe that to be the hardest part. There were numerous things that could go wrong like clogging or printing over the contact paper and having a big smudge on your finished product. All that happened to me, but I got passed it and learned a lot of different techniques that helped me get better finish products

One thing that I really like about my finished product is how the words came out. Because of the difficulties of the contact paper I had to change a few angles and sizes. I was worried that it might come out the opposite of how I thought it would but luckily it didn't. Something though that I didn't like and would change was the red marker that I used to color in the weapons. It didn't really come out the way I wanted it too so to me, the pieces doesn't look as unified as it could be. Other than that I really liked how my final piece turned out and I was happy to be able to experiment a bit with screen-printing which was something that I eagerly wanted to try out.

-Sai

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