Carlsbad Art and Culture

Creativity can be expressed in in a variety of ways, only limited by one’s lack of ideas. Paint can be meticulously applied to a canvas or aggressively splattered on cardboard. Clay can be caressed with sensual strokes or beat into abstract clumps. A visual display might occur on a gallery wall or within one’s mind narrated by the soothing sound of music. A jumbled arrangement of letters might tell a story as romantic as a first kiss or as haunting as dark forest. Creativity becomes limitless once one has given up the inhibitions of failure. Criticism is always positive because a golden ribbon is as meaningful as a rotten tomato. A canvas can be a flat piece of paper or the high cheek bones of a woman’s face. It can be a rock, a stage, a noise or an idea. Creativity can be limitless…

Screen printing or silk screening began as an industrial technology. It is currently popular both in fine arts and in commercial printing, where it is commonly used to print images on t shirts, hats, CDs, DVDs, ceramics, glass, polyethylene, polypropylene, paper, metals, and wood. Many believe that screen printing is the most versatile of all printing processes. Since rudimentary screen printing materials are so affordable and readily available, it has been used frequently in underground settings and subcultures. This form of expression has become an important vehicle for cultural expression seen on movie posters, record album covers, flyers, shirts, commercial fonts in advertising, and elsewhere.

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