We are busy preparing for the upcoming Art Bazaar (26th November). It's going to be a good one with themed shop areas. Yesterday was screen printing day. And I love screen printing although I'm still new to it really. Session was led by Jo.
EDIT 28JAN12. Sorry I have broken some links here. You can see the images in my scrapbook (link below) until I fix them.
We need to create some good value Arc merchandise and graphics that could be used to sell or decorate (signage at) the Art Bazaar. I was interested in the Indian embroidery we have at Arc, and wanted to come up with a couple of designs based on it.
The peacock and the elephant were my favourites. And I drew out some basic designs and tried to simplify for the purposes of screen printing. It's interesting to try and create designs where both positive and negative prints can be made.
Here is the final design for the peacock, it was drawn out onto manilla paper and then cut out. This is a photocopy.
Yellow on blue looked fantastic, I quite like the bubbles though they are not supposed to be there.
Some of the sections became misaligned. But created interesting designs all the same.
And here are some of the negative prints.
Straight off, I started experimenting with adding detail colours to the tail and wing before loading the screen with really surprising results. I assumed it wouldn't work but I'm really happy with some of them.
So that's it. A really productive day of experimentation and productivity, it was great.
Links
There are some more photos in my scrapbook (2011)
Arts for Recovery In The Community (Arc)