Essay for my Screenprinting class

[jewpinthethird]

I am only posting this here since I am at work and typing this out here will save me some time when I get home. I'll delete this thread once I get home and print it out. Feel free to correct my grammar and spelling as that to will also save me sometime once I get home.

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Before taking this class I hadn't the slightest idea as to what screen-printing was. I knew that t-shirts were printed by means of screen-printing, but that was about it. A friend suggested I take the class, and so I did since, to be brutally honest, I needed the credits.

I've always been fascinated with the arts ever since I was a child. Art was the one field that I really excelled in. I took art courses all throughout high school, I won some awards, had one of my paintings hang in the Palm Springs Museum, and I even took two advanced placement art courses my junior and senior year of high school. But alas, it was ultimately the Advanced Placement curriculum that caused me to distance myself from art. Though I was given the freedom to do what I wanted, I wasn’t given the freedom to work at my own pace. Towards the end of my senior year I became burnt out on art. I haven't picked up a pencil with the intent to draw since.

However, screen-printing was a new and exciting medium I had never tried nor previously considered. I came to class with the prospect that perhaps screen printing, being something new to me, would re-spark my interest in art, and it has to some extent. You see, I am a lazy perfectionist; spoiled might be a better term. When I make something, I want it to be perfect the first time through. If it isn’t, I get discouraged and give up; mostly because I lack patience. I do have patience when it comes to work with pencil, because if I mistake in pencil, I can simply erase it and start over; something that which cannot be done with paint, which is why I generally try to avoid working with it. I can't say I have a very good eye when it comes to color (another reason why my medium of choice is pencil). I also don't like to get messy. Well, actually I don’t like cleaning; one glance at the state of my room will tell you that much. So, unfortunately I must confess: my heart just isn’t in screen-printing.

Nonetheless, taking this course has given me a great appreciation or screen printers. I admire their patience and dedication, traits that I lack. But do not fret for this will not be my last venture into the realm of screen-printing. I do believe once I recover from whatever is binding my creative-self, I will return to screen-printing.