Week two of print has been focused on refining our designs for screen printing, finalising our colour palettes and beginning to spend time in the print room.
My first job of the week, extending from work i had begun to prepare in week one, was to finalise my colour palette, so that it could begin to feed and influence my screen print decision. The image i have chose to work from is a print by one of my favourite artists, Alphonse Mucha. The image hosts a beautiful mixture of organic, bright and tonal colours, providing me with an extensive choice of colour and shade to work from. I chose this image as it embodies colours that I knew i would enjoy working with, green and brown earthy tones, mixed with splashes of bright orange and moody reds.
Finalisiong our designs for screen print evolved into a very hectic process, due to a limited time frame the task of having to create three separate print designs (stripe, all over and placement) became very testing! Even though I had ideas already set out for my designs, after talks with my print tutors, i was encouraged to sample more and experiment with different compositions. I decided to scan my chosen motifs into to photoshop, so that i could quickly and efficiently whip up new layouts and designs, providing myself with a wider selection to work from . Even though at the time I found this task very full on and stressfull, I do feel that the final designs I chose after viewing my body of work as a whole, where much more effective then those i had originally planned to use. Proving to me that the importance of continual sampling and experimentation, can have a really positive effect on your work.
The next step was to begin mixing our own pigment dyes to try recreate the colours sampled from our colour palette, a task that proved harder than I had first anticipated. Due to the strength of the dyes, it was so easy at times to add a little to much and completely throw off a colour I had been working on, so it took a while to gather a selection of mixed dyes i was happy with. Luckily, in Thursdays workshop session, I was left with some time to test my colours by creating some of my first screen prints. I decided to keep them simple, so i could see the individual colours and decipher how well certain colours would work well together, when i moved on to more complex and layered prints.
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