Fat Dragon Screen Print - Oops, There Goes the Royalty...

Fat Dragon screen print. Looks like the remains of a pretty impressive royal feast to me.

 Ideas sketch

 

Colour Mixing

 First Layer - Yellow for crowns

 Layer 2: Dragon colour blend in two blues.

Final Print with black overlay.

Queen for a King Screen Print

 Layer one - Touch of ginger

Layer two - Crown 

Final Print

The happy couple - she still looks a bit evil, poor king....

King Screen Print

 King Drawing into screen print - Now he just needs a Queen and possibly a castle. 

 Beard in a fetching shade of ginger.

 Aectate on paper, lining up the next layer for registration.

 The ginger beard gets a crown.

 Final Print.

Octopus Seaweed Print

 Octopus print after picking up a whole load off seaweed of the beach in East Sussex. Rediscovered the unfortunate fact that the sea never smells that great when you take it home - Especially after a couple of days hanging out in a plastic bag....

 Ideas sheet.


Octopus Drawings:

 Possible layout

 Layer 1 - Coral seaweed

 Layer 2 - Sage green seaweed

Octopus on acetate

 Final print

Here be Dragons!

I'd been thinking about doing a Dragon print throughout January but life kept getting in the way. Started off sketching out some mini insect bug dragons in the blossom which I'll come back to at some point but decided for this print my dragon needed to be a little fiercer.

 Bug Dragons

 Another of my highly skilled ideas sketches.

 Giving my dragon a little more attitude.

 Having a fail at composition. Decided to go for a crop as the body looked way too stiff and uptight.

 Started printing - first layer down

 Red eyes

 Base blue

 Highlight blue

 Final black layer

 Print variation 1

 Print variation 2

Dragon on acetate.

Final prints - home and dry after 9 hours printing.

An evening with Mr Fox (Printing the Fox.)

Printed the fox this evening. Got to the studio at 5, left at 10:30 home by 11.

 I keep doing this - putting ink on the screen when your still surrounded by choas is not a good idea.
Also notice scarface - screen sratch above his eye.  Ink printed through without any issue though.

 Colour blend - orange to red

Yellow eyes added. 

Black was bit tricky to print, turned out a pretty mean looking thunder cloud.

Black transformed cute fluffy colour blend layer to one cross looking fox.

Final print.

Midnight foxes.

Came home after day of printing final Wee Bird colours with a head full of foxes, specifically a cluster of foxes. Whipped up the fastest dinner that I know how to cook that doesn't come out of a plastic container and got busy with a pencil.

At this point I realised I was too tired to produce any more foxes and these too looked a bit awkward together. I decided to bin the slightly more boring one and stuck it in the spare fox box.   

Started playing around with halftone for the first time.

2:30am - At this point I stopped and crawled into bed, about to turn the light off I realised lines were upside down and fox needs gradient.

Woke up late, tried fox with blue and then black and blue .

and then decided to stick with black.

Final composition - 3 layers with 1 colour blend.