screenprint

Overlaid colour: screenprint

This next project is going to be a playful use of colour. Thinking of how I create stencils in a new way, I'm going to explore organic shapes. These are Fimo shapes rolled flat and baked. Left over from another project- what appealed to me was their irregularity...

Above: Fimo shapes used to make stencil

Below: first test sheet

Green and purple grurple: screenprint

When red met yellow 

Preparing for the degree show I began screen-printing 20cm squares of colour, working from yellow to red, through orange. The colours were mixed entirely by hand. The prints on the wall were the most successful in terms of printmaking- less smudges and blemishes and of good colour gradation. 

As with printmaking of all kinds, there were just as many that didn't make the grade...

To break the monotony, I occasionally deviated to a new colour...

making work at home: the inevitable...

Pattern / screenprint 2009

Screen-print; Orchid

Sreen-print; leaf

Signing up for GUILT and shame: screenprint

Aubergine: screenprint 

Gaggle of splats: screenprint 

Screen-print showing apparent texture in flat print. Original positive created by photocopying paint...

stepped screen-print working from white to black in over 20 gradual overlapping prints. Printed on domestic lining paper

Detail from the complete series: screenprint 2009

WHITE

RED SHADE BLUE

YELLOW SHADE RED

RED SHADE YELLOW

  BLUE SHADE GREEN

RED SHADE BLUE

RED SHADE BLUE

Degree show, FdA Byam Shaw. -some alternative installation shots showing the series of prints...

The complete series is an exploration of colour. Inspired the the work of Josef Albers and Johannes Ittens. The prints were created on somerset velvet A1 printmaking paper and hand cut cartridge paper (approximately A3). Each of the colours were hand mixed using high quality water-based printing ink, including the grey. By mixing the colours by hand I was able to create the exact hues to complement the series. 

Working with Itten's colour interaction principles, the pieces are very visually striking in the flesh; the pink and grey is almost impossible to look at for too long with the pink jumping out around the grey, while the grey and blue sit harmoniously together.