Seven colour screen print, continuing the theme of playing with transparent and opaque colours. Starting to build a core colour palette for my prints but wanting to introduce new colours while maintaining a harmony.
How each layer is built. Slowly with care and focus.
The silkscreen process. The exposed screen is taped up and secured onto the press. All edges are taped to avoid any unwanted ink onto the paper. Beautiful raspberry blue waiting to be printed.
The starting point for my silkscreen prints, acrylic brush marks, oil pastel scribbles and drawn line images. The marks are random and often I don’t know how these will work together. The marks are scanned and then brought into photoshop. I will spend hours arranging and re arranging them until they click together. Colour is really important in my prints so I spend time making sure that the colours harmonise. I create a colour visual that I will use as a guide when mixing the colours. The next step is to isolate each layer that is to be used in the print, clean them up and then send off for acetates.