Shannon Fennell Artist

 I am enjoying printmaking. More than I ever expected. I spent a day and a half in the studio this week with Helen. She did an induction to Collagraphy with me on Friday, and I am really excited to see what my plate will result in! I ran out of time for it to dry so will be back next week to ink it up and see what happens. The base is backing board, and I've used denim, tulle, polystyrene sheet, plastic mesh from a hair rat, cardstock, die-cut card, dried plant material, packing tape, hard plastic mesh, carborundum frit, to build up the image, and also tore up the top layer of the backing board in areas. Then the whole thing was coated with layers of strawhat varnish. All those materials will either hold the ink, or not. Will be really interesting to see what this looks like when printed.  I did three different monoprint plates this week as well - ended up with four prints off of two of them, and three off the other. I spent more time playing with adding material to the p...

I've completely altered my theme, media, proposal subject due to my vision deterioration. It has become increasingly difficult over the past few months to deal with what I had initially planned and presented in my Speculative Proposal back in the Fall. My regular treatments were delayed and when I did receive them on March 6th, they did not work as fast as previously. While there has been improvement over the last week, I am still struggling to focus and my depth perception is pretty much non-existent. Reading is extremely difficult and limited so I've not been able to do the reading I had planned. Trying to continue with my original proposal - sculpting, mould making and casting figures - is now too difficult for me. Dealing with mixing, measuring and pouring without focus and depth perception is quite stressful. There is also the finishing work which would involve sanding edges with either a Dremel or files which, when you can't focus is a bit of a health & safety ris...