Screen Printing Induction

           

                            

          

                                                                   

                     I really enjoyed screen printing. Although there is a long build up and a lot of preperation before you can actually start printing, once you get there, it is a lot of fun. I liked how you can constantly create prints using different colours and different techniques. We tried a marble effect and simply just two colours side by side. The marble effect was really effective because the different colours mixed together creating further shades of colours.

With some of the black drawings, I feel like we maybe could have pressed a little harder, like with the umbrella women as the line appears rather faint. Overall i think it was very successful.

Marble effects 

Further map developments

Our Route

Carlton Hill

Christmas Market

Trinity - Primark, Kitchen

Lush

The Market

John Lewis

T2

Arcades

Merrion Centre

Up to Parkinson's steps

So throughout our journey we didn't really have a set theme. This enabled us to gather as much information as possible collectively. As the day progressed we decided to start refining our ideas and focus. Thinking about the screen printing ahead we thought we'd stick to the 2 colour idea. We chose to draw anything we saw in red.

I decided to use some simplified drawings with the pending screen printing induction in mind. Block red colour works really well with the black creating a striking composition, I think the minimalist style is extremely successful.

So one sheet will have simple blocks of red shapes and the other one (which will go on top of the red) will be the black out line of each object.

So this is a rough copy of what we aimed for our final outcome to look like. I think the clear motif of red works really well along with the simplicity. Perhaps when it comes to actually screen printing the design we could perhaps experiment with other colours?

One week map - Screen Printing

For this project, we were to create a two colour map of Leeds. Focusing on reportage illustration and psychogeography. In groups we went round Leeds and recorded our journey capturing the essence of Leeds through drawings, photography, recordings and senses. Despite the weather I thought It was a very successful exercise as it made me really focus on the beauty of Leeds.

 Rough sketches of interiors and people around Leeds.

I managed to ease drop on peoples conversations and pick up some key quotations. I found it particularly difficult to draw people when they are constantly on the move.

Shape and Texture 2

So I decided to learn from my mistakes and create another design - this time focusing on shape.

As you can see this is much more successful as the simplicity of the photograph works so well - inspired by my fruit project.

Shape and texture

I started to combine texture with shape. I used a photograph of myself as a subject matter and put my focus on creating textures. I used a variety of materials and paper with numerous techniques combined to add complexity. 

I really like prominent textures used and use of mix media but I feel i have lost a sense of structure and shape. I have focused too heavily on texture and forgotten about shape. What I should have done which would have worked better is cut out the outline of my face so I had something to work with, this would help me in terms of proportion. I aim on re doing this task but focusing more on shape. 

Shape

I started to look at the power of shape and simplifying more complex images, capturing the true essence of the image making it identifiable but not obvious. I chose a pineapple as my subject matter and started experimenting in my sketchbook with shapes and cut outs.

I wanted to chose a fruit that is so complex to give me a real opportunity to simplify it. I started to deconstruct the image, taking key areas of shape and furthering the simplification process until i'm only really using two solid shapes repeatedly. The more simple it becomes definitely the more successful as it creates more of an interesting, abstract composition, yet still identifying the fruit.

Tribal mark making

Marks to represent tone

Starting to look at tone and see how line marks can show types of tone. I used some tribal images from my previous projects and used pen and pencil techniques such as dotting, and decreasing pressure on paper to create gradation tone.

I also experimented with simple lines to show a sense of tone - the closer together they are the more of a solid colour it becomes. I learnt a lot about different ways you can create tone.

Using water as a form of tone, mixing colours using water colour pencils. The colour corresponds nicely with the actual image and creates quite a sad tone. The gun adds to this but because of the colours, doesn't show a sense of power but perhaps a sense of honour and vulnerability.

Dream House

Tone, texture and mark making

For this small exercise, I focused on shape, tone and texture in creating a 'dream home'.

My idea was focused around the idea of a screw. I particularly liked the shape and structure and thought it would be interesting as a house, with the screw bits representing the slide going down the building. In terms of materials, I used ink and white acrylic paint used in quite a free flowing, expressive way to emphasise texture. I used a dry brush effect which created really interesting textural marks.