screen printing

I found yet another fun art medium that I love!! Screen Printing!
It's definitely way easier and faster than the relief prints I was doing, but just as fun :) It's an interesting process taking an image and making two images from it, and turning it back into one image. It's also kind of confusing at first because the image is inverted when you print the stencil, so it looks different than the original, but the print looks like the original. The first was a print on paper, I used a photo of my friend and her now husband that I took for their engagements.

Second print I did was on a shirt. It's basically the same as the paper print, except that the ink we use for the shirts is oil based, not water based acrylics, so it's a ton messier and harder to clean up. But the printing is just as fun! 

I did a fun tribal/henna giraffe design that I found online. ( I wanted to draw it, but i'm not THAT good ) I did a blend roll from a bright plum purple to a bright lemon yellow. It kind of reminded me of a sunset, maybe on the African savanna or something :p I decided to try it on a black shirt, and I like it, but I think I want to try another on something lighter, maybe cream?

The third and final screen print I did was a reductive screen print. Basically, you start with your lightest color and once that is printed, you paint over that section on your screen with shellac. Then you continue the process with the rest of your colors. I did an eight color print, which in my opinion, didn't turn out all that great, but it was a learning experience. I called it "The Abstract Life of A Flower". The image on the left is the photo I used to create the stencil on the screen.

new artsy love of mine

I'm still here! Just been busy. But while I've been away, I have found a new form of art that I LOVE! It's expensive and it takes forever, but I find it quite fun and maybe even relaxing. What is it, you ask? Relief printing! 

The one on the top of the single eye is a 12"x12". It was the less expensive of the two. The linoleum cost $5, and the paper was like $2 a sheet and I got 5 prints out of 3 sheets.

The second one is roughly 3 feet long by 2 feet wide. The linoleum for this one was $30 (for a 36"x24" sheet). And the paper was $4 a sheet ( I bought 6). I think I really rather enjoyed the larger one though. Since it was so large, I could add more details that would be impossible to have added to the smaller print.

Relief definitely takes patience haha. But it looks sooooo cool when its done :) 

If you are interested in purchasing either of these prints, please fill out the Contact Me form at the bottom of my blog for pricing and availability. I currently have a few of both.

finding my inner nerd

Well, I can now say that I have experienced my very first Comic Con! My friend convinced me to go with her because the Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy) was there. So, I got me a ticket. But then I found out that Matt Smith (11th Doctor) was going to be there too!!!! That was a dream come true! As soon as photo ops went on sale, I got me one. It only cost me my soul haha. I even made a special shirt for the occasion :) It was definitely worth the money I paid. And I'd do it again in a heartbeat! They even had a Tardis! I spent waaayyy too much, but I'll be ready for the next one in September. That is, if there's people there I want to meet haha

love is in the air

Today was just the bees knees! I was able to do my very first engagement shoot for a friend of mine and her fiance. It was such a BEAUTIFUL day for it too! The snow was the perfect setting for the photos. 

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pure happiness

 Sorry for the lack of posts lately. But I'm sure you'll come to forgive me when I explain the reason for my short disappearance. So apart from me being busy with normal college things, There have been some exciting happenings around campus. We had the privilege to have the one and only Kenny Loggins come and preform for us on the 27th. The band that opened for him was pretty awesome too. They are called The Beatles Return and they are practically the Beatles themselves. Every detail from the outfits to the hair to the exact replica instruments. They even had the voices down to a T. It was like I was back in the 1960's at a Beatles concert. They were amazing.

Kenny Loggins was pure awesome. He played some of his earlier stuff that I had grown up on like "Pooh Corner" and some others. And of course he played "Footloose" and "Danger Zone".

What made the concert even better was I made a new friend. I went to the concert alone, and asked if I could sit next to a couple of guys. They said it was fine, so I sat down and kind of started conversation with the young man next to me. Turns out, he was moving to Cedar the next day, and didn't have any friends yet. So, I felt pretty special. He asked for my number and everything.  Then on Saturday he texted me and asked if I would like to hang out and show him around town a bit. So, I obviously did. We ended up going to Sub Zero, because he had never been, and then decided to randomly see what was playing at the cheap theater. It just so happened that RoboCop was playing about 15 minutes later, so we saw that. It was pretty good. There were parts that I was sure I was watching scenes from Call of Duty or something.

So my weekend was very eventful and amazing and just full of happiness and awesome and new friends and so much happy.

"Add life to your days, not days to your life"

-Unknown

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hello there

Spontaneous weekend post!!
Basically, my school is THE best! They had a mini Holi festival to raise money for children in India to be able to attend school. It was FANTASTIC! Smaller than the Spanish Fork Holi festival, but still really fun, and for an amazing cause. Just thought I'd let everyone know how awesome Southern Utah University is :)

sorry for the delay

Hey again :) Sorry for the blogging delay. It's been a busy last week or so. Spring break was last week, and I just didn't feel like blogging because I was having some much needed family time :) I did however take some awesome pics for my sister :) She needed seniors done, so since I was home, my mom asked if I would try to get a few. They turned out great :) I'll even share a few of my faves :)

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I didn't even have to tell her to do anything, she's just that photogenic. And yes, she is basically a babe, but she's off limits unless I approve first ;) 
Oh, If you would like to see some more of my stuff, feel free to visit my site http://my.jessikalloyd.com. It's got some pretty great stuff, if I do say so myself :)

For the next couple of weeks, I will be working on my portfolio for my Foundation Review for school. Basically this is what tells me if I make it into the BFA program here or not. It's kind of a big deal. 
I'm also working on final projects seeing as there are about 6 weeks left in the semester, so if I don't post something one week I'm sorry in advance. It's going to get really stressful around here shortly. 

Do you ever have those days when you are almost positive that it is in fact another day when it isn't? It happened today. I thought it was Friday, and since I don't have class Friday, when my alarm to wake up for my 9AM class went off, I turned it off and went back to bed.  Totally slept through class. Oopsie. Luckily there wasn't any tests or quizzes today and I can get the lesson from the textbook  :)

Guess what???!!!! So apparently my school is having a free Kenny Loggins/ Chris Wallace concert next week! I'm so stoked!!! And it is possibly a date for me :) I'll know by Sunday for sure. I really hope it all works out though. I need things to start working out. 

Well, I hope everyone has a great weekend :) I think I actually might :)

"Don't compare your love story to those you watch in movies. They're written by scriptwriters. Yours is written by God."

 -Unknown

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