more postcards and hanging

as i sip my coffee and steady myself for the day of hanging works, painting plinths and general exhaustion its exciting to realise that its all coming to a head. I dont know if i would have produced these works if i wasn't in the school environment that i was but it has given me HEAPS to go on and even though i didn't get to do as much drawing as i thought i would have - i have so much information to work from and a much better understanding of the artistic process - i hope!

All postcards out in the wide world

So all the post cards are out in the big wide world - i have about 25 or so cards that have come back, it's exciting to get mail everyday.

Postcards Back! Review

have managed to give out most of the 90 postcards and a steady trickle of them are coming back.

Had a review with lynne and marg in the project space on thursday with the other drawning honours kids and we worked together to make the room look like a group exhibition, rather than taking just a wall each as we had done when we set up in the am. Then we had another review with roger, charles and lynne again.

Both days were exausting both physically in the hanging of the drawings but also looking at how all my work is going to hold together as one body of work -

To tie it all together we decided a branding of identy would be in order, so we looked at the different ways that this could be achived. A stamp looked like it could be a good choice. A stamp that could literally brand the boxes, drawings, postcards, etc etc etc

postcards how they would appear in the catalouge

Who wants a postcard??

FINALLY the postcards are done, stamped and in the process of being sent out to people and giving them to people - have managed to get out about 30 of the 90 out - so hopefully by the wednesday i can palm them off onto honours people and their familes.

The postcards proved to be a pain. I Looked high and low for 250gm paper (thin enough for the printer and coppier) to no avail - i have no idea where i got the first few sheets - so printed them on 200gm paper - a bit too thin for my liking, but, substatinaly cheaper and i think that due to the thiness they will get a bit more character into them - they don't look so thin on the wall only to the touch. I removed the printed address in favour of people writing it in their own handwriting, the cards were also stained in tea to remove the mass produced bright white from them, much better and now there is some tonal variants in them which hopefuly will prove intresting en mass.

Now all thats left to be done is:

1. give out all cards
2. get back all cards
3. catalouge boxes
4. create catalouge both hard copy and online
5. investigation report
6. essays :(

I'm breathing a little easier now but still scared!

ALSO:

I have recived a nice total of 60 synchronised travel pics from other people! Now begins the task of formatting them into a book.

postcards ahoy

The recreation of the couple of drawings that were too overworked and contained too much information was well worth the effort, the drawings now hang together much better and i'm just happier with them in general,

Have spent today making them into postcards, slicing them into 9 and putting them into 6"X4" cards.

Instead of scanning them i got a pleasing result from taking a photo of them in the highest res on my good camera, and cropping them down -

however there is a bit of colour difference on them which i'm leaving to sort out tomorrow in the digi labs.

I'm up to 49 submissions for my synchronised traveling, a few people, have submitted more than once but it's all part of it.

no not done yet

have decided that 2 of my drawings need to be redone! oh the horror. It has delayed the timetable - - - - - - - oh well.

uurrrmm

its a closer count down than what i first thought - my computer died - so had to go to wollongong to get it fixed - now i have a new OH so quiet power supply in it and dad very very kindly lent me his laptop to use which is great so now i can do all my file uploads, renaming etc in front of the tv which makes it so much more palatable. have almost finished my 10 drawings (hopefully all done by the end of the week) so then they will be off to the printers etc, need to start on my theory too- - as a typical art student i've left everything to the last minute. auugghh