Day 1 Schedule, Paperwork, Screenprinting, Library, Drawing etc...

Just as the title suggests, this is my first day at Flying Horse Editions. By the way if you are wondering, FHE is the UCF run fine-art print studio and my role here is to do "labor" as well as find some sort of rewarding experience out of the internship for 3 hours of upper-level college credit. So far, I have laid out my schedule: T/Th 1:30-5 May 18-Aug 14. I completed the necessary paperwork and also submitted my letter of intent:

I have prior print experience from Great Graphics Photoscan. And I have friends who run this totally great shop called Seizure Palace in Portland. I have gleaned so far that I will be refurbishing some equipment and helping to get ready for the move of the studio to its new downtown location.

There are a few projects going on right now at FHE. One of which includes a book of poetry, and another is a William Blake book project. The poetry book is a collaboration with a poet and an artist and FHE as the screenprinter. The work mostly incudes color matching the paint sheets, because when the poet and artist were conceptualizing this project they were throwing down paint swatches, going back and forth and playing off eachother. The prints will be sent off and have to be accurate or the whole idea won't work. The Blake project was all specked out on the wall of the print studio and I am not too sure of what is happening with that one.

I gripped some books from the library to help with this internship. One is an older book on printmaking which I started reading. It leaves a lot of room in its definition of printmaking and allows for "monoprints" or prints which are only run once. Sometimes these are deemed drawings, eitherway I appreciate the authors loose take on this. Another is the the classic Experimental Drawing. I want to work on some drawing projects in my downtime and build up my portfolio. I plan on borrowing a few more drawing books this semester, and I hope to make prints of a few of my drawings with access to the equipment at FHE. I also have some other texts checked out on Adobe programs that I need to re-check out, which reminds me...