Andrea Schumacher

Another week has gone by and I translated a drawing into a screen print. It did lose something in the translation. Still learning with screen printing and I have a long way to go. Want to figure out how to best translate drawings into print. Still haven't made an etsy site. Hopefully soon. Memorial Day Weekend is beckoning, so it is time to close up the shop for another 3 day weekend.

 Here is the original drawing, or the inspiration for this print.

I have been screen printing much of this week. That and scrubbing out our wash out room. This is the only decent print I have managed to print this week. I am hoping to get it together and create an etsy shop for some of my prints and drawings.

Printing is hard, and requires a lot of tape.

This is a screen print that I did as a demo for class. It was an inside joke at work that Chris Kerr bullied James Myers. I wanted to make a print of one of Chris' joke post-it notes to James (print above). Then I decided to  make a companion print of Chris as a Bully. I am hoping to do more screen printing this summer.

My drawings tend to be created in spontaneous manner, but the source materials have been well-researched and considered. Many of the images have been integrated from a variety of sources; textbooks, encyclopedias, coloring books, comic books, grocery store circulars, and the yellow pages; images from everyday life.  I distill these source materials into more elemental images. I like to utilize images of people, products, processes that are ideals; images that are meant to sell a product or explain a principle. I like to use diagrammatic devices to explain more ambiguous processes. These are the issues I think about and the sources I refer to when making images.

             
I work back and forth between printmaking, drawing and (recently) sculpture. What happens in each media informs and enhances the others. I tend to have a somewhat digressive nature as an artist. My thinking naturally goes off on tangents that seem inexplicable to others. My drawing/painting practice is where I allow myself to work in a fairly spontaneous manner. I plan more for prints and sculptures. As I grow older these leaps of thought seem less divergent and more coherent and the tangents begin to make sense to the casual observer. In my mind I have shorthanded my concerns to the realm of comfort and control. These two issues seem to me to be at the heart of the American lifestyle.