Pulling Prints: pink

Tuesday, 11 March 2014

Panda on Pink.

Went for a panda this week. Don't know why, just had an unreasonable urge to draw one, so I did and then I gave it some nice wallpaper....

Eyes & Ears.

All the black fur.

White face fur.

Drawing out pattern shapes for the background.

Aectate positives lined up on the light box.

First two layers - Salmon pink background and base dark grey over body and pattern.

White on white face fur down.

Finished print ready to package.

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.

Tuesday, 5 November 2013

Printing the crows.

The crows were a little ambitious for the third week I'd been in the print studio. I went for A2 in line with my general work moto - 'if in doubt make it massive'.

I didn't realise how tricky big plains of flat colour are to pull off. Ended up using the arm on a bigger screen printing bed as it definitely wasn't happening with me hand pulling it.

Next layer after that and my registration was going off between one tiny bit of the beetle and the crows. Whole process stressful with a lot of expensive mistakes. Out of 30 or so prints I've ended up with around 6 good ones.

Oh well you live and learn.

Printing on the big bed with highly technical wooden stick prop. Weight of the arm stops the counter balance from working.

It's always nice when mistakes look like monsters.

After this I threw away my last bit of hand mixed pink. Big mistake, meant that I couldn't cover any accidential flecks of paint from prints hanging around the studio or little marks that cropped up when printing the other layers over the top. Fail.