Now For The Real Thing

After lots of practising and testing, tweaking colours and sampling fabrics....

I have started the final print! 

So far I have finished my block colour layer, after the Easter break I will be able to take that off the print table and start on my patterned layer! 

Upping The Scale

I have been working on my final repeating print design and used lots of different stylised animals from my original drawings, and added all my monoprint patterns to them.

I chose one to blow up to a really big scale to see what it would look like.

This is bigger than the scale of my final print but I wish it could be this big!

Print Testing!

During the past week I have been using my test screen to try out different colours, layering colours on top of each other and trying some fabrics.

Being brave with my colour combinations and seeing what works!

Printing Experiments

After churning out lots and lots of mono prints using my polystyrene and lino cut stamps...

I managed to collage together one of the animals I have drawn, using simple geometric shapes.

I think this idea could be quite successful once the patterns have some colour on them!

I have also gone back a step and done some more experimenting to try and introduce some colour into my work. 

Printing on top of some loose painted pattern.

Printing colour on top of painted pattern.

Im not sure these really work yet but I will keep working on it!