Showing posts with label A3. Show all posts
Showing posts with label A3. Show all posts
Sunday, 11 May 2014
Crabbing Drawing Test Fail
Eugh crabbing drawing fail. Crabs being pulled up the harbour wall - Walberswick. Pre-school level of talent realisation moment.
Friday, 9 May 2014
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
First Layer - Yellow for crowns
Layer 2: Dragon colour blend in two blues.
Colour Mixing
Final Print with black overlay.
Monday, 5 May 2014
Queen for a King Screen Print
Final Print
The happy couple - she still looks a bit evil, poor king....
Friday, 10 January 2014
One final Anteater before Christmas.
The last print before my pens went down for Christmas.
My truly extraordinary idea sketch.
Sketching out sitting or standing variations.
Went with standing.
Getting hairy.
Layering it up.
Super rough photoshop mock up.
Running out of time - super close to going with a cop out. Moved printing days and freed up a few more hours.
Final composition in photoshop. Ready to print.
Tongue down.
Followed by body base colour.
Layer three - brown.
Final Print.
Ant close up.
Print wrapped and delivered to Studio 73 for Christmas Shoppers.
Went with standing.Thursday, 28 November 2013
A little bit of parrot magic.
Going a lot better this week after the Pigeon crash and burn. Still sleepy but feeling less mental. Decided to go back to a parrot illustration of mine that I'd printed as an etching a year ago. I like the drawing and being newish to etching I couldn't manipulate the colours the way I wanted to.
I took the discarded mini ink blob pattern from the magic cow and layered it up on an enlarged ink brush stroke. With the black feathers overlayed it created a nice effect. Also using acetate registration tabs instead of paper for first time this week, huge difference in lining up the different layers - that's another technique for keeps.
Computer print out for printing reference - stop me from exposing images backwards again....
Colour mixing - do like a bit of tangerine!
First layer down, smooth sailing. Although 10 min before this I did mess up my black layers exposure. I left screen in the exposure bed while it was warming up and it managed to expose every miniscule scatch on the glass surface onto my screen. End result bit like a very detailed road map with a surprised parrot in the middle of it... Had to wash that one out...
Tangerine layer 2 on screen.
Didn't even notice the edge had mis printed on the top print until I looked at this photograph.. oops.
Final black layer down - Final colour print! Woop! Without any mini crisis!
Close up - paper is not yellow - just funny studio lighting.
Decided to do some all black one colour prints too. Very different look for the same image.
I took the discarded mini ink blob pattern from the magic cow and layered it up on an enlarged ink brush stroke. With the black feathers overlayed it created a nice effect. Also using acetate registration tabs instead of paper for first time this week, huge difference in lining up the different layers - that's another technique for keeps.
Colour mixing - do like a bit of tangerine!
First layer down, smooth sailing. Although 10 min before this I did mess up my black layers exposure. I left screen in the exposure bed while it was warming up and it managed to expose every miniscule scatch on the glass surface onto my screen. End result bit like a very detailed road map with a surprised parrot in the middle of it... Had to wash that one out...
Tangerine layer 2 on screen.
Didn't even notice the edge had mis printed on the top print until I looked at this photograph.. oops.
Final black layer down - Final colour print! Woop! Without any mini crisis!
Close up - paper is not yellow - just funny studio lighting.
Decided to do some all black one colour prints too. Very different look for the same image.
Sunday, 24 November 2013
Rye day two - frames and magic cow composition.
Picked up a nice frame for my cat print in the morning, vintage frames are the way forward if you can get them for the right price. Just paying for assembly and to get a mat cut is a lot less financially stressful. Got an email the night before offering me a place in a Christmas studio sale in Stoke Newington on the 7th of December :) Pretty happy about that, ordered some smaller paper to do some simpler mini prints that I'm thinking will be good for gifts.
Got back to work on the cow from where I left off a month ago.....
New composition idea but desperately in need of a better shape. Looked up some Indian miniature paintings and went back to original photo of cow on Italian bible in Pisa.
New shape with some fold the paper in half and grab some scissors magic.
I wanted some kind of detailed textured background and decided to start drawing tiny ink shapes. Thought I'd be done in half an hour.
Half an hour later
An hour later.
1 & half hours of squiggles....... fail.
Way too busy!
Did some bigger ones as well - pretty ugly too.
Merged the two squiggle layers for a more pleasing result.
Ditched the crazy ass zig zags and tried a three colour layering.
Much better as a two colour print.
Possibly only a one colour. 1.45 in the morning again - crawled off to bed.
Got back to work on the cow from where I left off a month ago.....
New shape with some fold the paper in half and grab some scissors magic.
I wanted some kind of detailed textured background and decided to start drawing tiny ink shapes. Thought I'd be done in half an hour.
1 & half hours of squiggles....... fail.
Did some bigger ones as well - pretty ugly too.
Ditched the crazy ass zig zags and tried a three colour layering.
Much better as a two colour print.
Possibly only a one colour. 1.45 in the morning again - crawled off to bed.
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