Perpich residency, 3 hours.
This week was a bit more low key, which was nice coming off of a pretty hectic and busy spring break. I wasn't at Perpich on Monday, as I had an opportunity to work at my dads studio to make a little extra money, which was nice. He's a commercial and product photographer and runs his own business, and occasionally brings me on as an assistant for shoots or projects; my brother works for him full time. I'm not necessarily interested in commercial photography, but it's always enjoyable and a nice way to do something a bit different every now and again.
I was back at Perpich on Wednesday, and students were in the midst of working on their second project to wrap it up before spring break and semester interim. Excitingly, a number of students were working with the four color process technique I had demoed the week prior. Some images are visible in the gallery below; one student was working from a photograph they had taken in Thailand of someone on a motorcycle, while another student was using the technique with polyester plate lithography and a more abstracted image. The student working on the motorcycle screen print was feeling a bit skeptical about how the image would turn out after printing the yellow and cyan layers, but I encouraged them to keep working and see where it went. After printing the magenta layer, the image started to come into focus more, which got them sparked to continue working with the image. Not only was I glad to see my lesson being put into practice, but it felt good to work through the image with the student and push them to a spot where they felt excited and invigorated about their piece again. I was also super excited by the polyester plate image the other student was working on; this sort of visual and technique based experimentation is something I really value in my own practice, and it was exciting to se it come out naturally in their work.
