Test Space - Was Shit.

Firstly I want to thank Jodie very much for taking my work...On Saturday just gone, she ran a stall with some peoples work, including mine, at the Testspace event, which sounds as though it was a complete failure.

Jodie says they were pretty unorganised and even moved them to 42 Briggate in the hope that it would be better there, it was pretty much worse with less space and less tables. No one really came because it was badly advertised, only about 5 people who weren't involved came in and didn't even look at the stuff for sale.

The only thing that sold was one of my Barbie head prints and with no one really about to even look at the work, there really was no hope! However, this Barbie print seems to sell a little where ever I take it, I might mention it to Simon at on the wall and see if he'll try and sell it for me...

I think we're all wary of bothering with Test Space Leeds again, as one of the people who was selling stuff there also, said that a guy running it told her that it wasn't about selling our stuff it was more about getting people in the there are looking at the space they've got.

Other Printers...

I've also taken a look at The On the Wall website again to refresh my memory but also to see what kinds of design is printed and how. Looking at what is already sold, will be a way to pin-point ways to make my work stand out and hold it's own.

I've also taken a look at other screenprinters approch to printing there work:

1. 'Arrow 3' - A US based artist who has managed to place his unique hand crafted arrows all over the globe. It's a 4 colour screenprint, I can liken the colours in the middle - cyan and magenta overlapped to what I want to do and how I want to make my image look 3D.

2. I particularly like the way this artist - Mark Pawson, has used layers of printing in this image. It's done using 6 colours and the way they overlap and form another shade of colour is also what I'd like to do within my work...

3. This last piece is part of the OBEY campaign, a 3 colour screenprint and I particularly like it because of the good alignment within it and the 'blocky' feel of it. This is important in putting my -air-berrys together, I want to concentrate on printing it really well, perfectly alligned, so it looks crisp and fresh.