The process - using a roller over the stencil with acrylic paint
Our first session back with Nick was one of my favourite ones - creating a stencil to then print onto an A3 paper. I was really surprised, throughout the entirety of the year, with how thrilled I was with Nicks' sessions - completely out of my comfort zone and stuff I'd never done before, but it was so enjoyable to sit and relax and go back to simple designs with just small drawings.
The propaganda-esque posters inspired me to do work for the Women's March, outside of my work time and to do something empowering with bright colours that stand out from the crowd. Because of the way the images were given to us at random, it really pushed the creativity out from me and how to work them together with little information given to us. I was best pleased with my first one, the factory design, it was so basic yet so effective.
I'd really love to do this project again, it was so simple but enjoyable for the entire group to do, and didn't take too long to create. I'd also created posters in response to my designs; changing the colour, adding texture, for more impact, and they worked quite well with different schemes.
My favourite part of the process was getting the chance to create the print, it was messy, almost like being back in Primary School, but it was enchanting and fulfilling to create work which was so tactile and imperfect. Because of the fun aspect of the session I also couldn't resist to add a pun into my work, which, despite Nick sort of half-groaning at, I really enjoyed, it made the work way more light-hearted.
