MERRY CHRISTMAS!

                                                       
I needed to experiment with lino printing to remind myself of the effects I can acheive and how better to do it than for some christmas cards!

Silk Screen Printing in Uni

After being in London and doing the workshop there I wanted to get on with some actual printing!  So i developed an image from some photos of buildings that I'd taken in London and got introduced to the textiles print rooms at uni!  I managed to get done in one day more than I've done in London so far, so I'll definately be going back to develop my prints even further.  I also experimented with printing onto both material and paper, I plan on experimenting a lot more with material and how I can present it.  I used green and grey to print in rather than just black and think it worked with a pale grey paper and a cream paper.

 

This shows the layout of my screen - for next time i now know that i should of spread the two layers out a bit more!

  

The two halves didn't meet up particularly well-another point i need to work on for next time! But I like how the print worked on the fabric, it was much better than I was expecting!

Silk Screen Printing in London

My new obsession is silk screen printing, it's always intrigued me but I've never got round to getting images ready and actually doing it!  So when I found out about the Free Form workshop specialising in silk screen held in London I was excited to get started!  The course is 4 weeks long, every wednesday at the East London Print Makers.  Im half way through at the moment so I have designed my screen and had an introduction to the print studios and prepared my screen - the printing starts next week!  

The theme for our designs is basically yourself, your personal image, something that shows who you are.  I wanted to put across that I am quite a creative person, but other than that I just wanted a nice design!  I've been holding onto a piece of patterned paper for a while now and this turned out to be the ideal outing for it!

   

This is mine and my sisters designs in the beginning stages.  She's a very musical person, so her design is along that path. Mine is more random, I have my fancy pattern and then a cameo style brooch shape with a little pic of me in the middle - to make it personal!

      

We were shown how to wash the screen, coat it and expose the image photographically on it.