London Trip

Street art and colour research
While visiting Tate modern in London the colours of Street art and what they presented has cought my eye. The previous exploration of colour mixing gave me the understanding on how colours interac with eatch other and creat depth depending on the tone and opacity.

Following the trip i have realised that some of the artists i have previously done research on such as Frak Stella use the same contrasting and vibrant colours on top of blank background which makes them stand out and create more of a dimentional illusion.

Frank Stella , Firuzabad (1970)

One of the clear similarities i have noticed apart from to colours was scale of the artwork. I found that the street art is mainly a larger and more noticable scale such that when standind in front of the painted wall i felt almost intimidated by it ,yet drawn in due to the way it leads the eye around switching the focus .

Screen Printing

The screen printing experience was rather satisfying. The process started by producing an acytate from scanned geometric shapes arranged on paper and than printed out. Once the asytate was ready the screen was covered in a light sensitive chemical that would expose the image fromacytate onto the creen allowing for it to be printed. Personally i found it to be very interesting and quite relaxing process even though it takes same time to get done. After placing the screen on the light box it was left there for 20 minutes for the exposure to happen so that the screen can be washed dried and ready for the printing.

My personal prints as shown above turned out pretty well . I have decided to try 2 compleatly oposite colour shemes one cold and one warm tone and tested them on both ; white and colour of choice, backgrounds.  The blue prints came out very graphic and sharp however i found them to be rather blank and flat therfore i chose a slightly more adventerous approach with the warm toned prints.

The marble effect on theprint was created by adding red orange and yellow onto the screen and not compleatly mixing them into a one solid colour butinstead letting them combine in irregular pattern.

The orange background made the whole print very fiery and brough all of the great tone qualities to the surface.

This brings me down to my favourite and most "busy" print. Creating this i stood by the colour mixing method however i added some white to make the colours slightly brighter. For this print i decided to play with the placement of the screen and do the opposite overlap. Looking at this print reminds me of visual explanaton to what i imagine "brain storm" to be as it has just a lot of shapes and forms going on while some are more clear and obvious than the others.

Emulsion Printing

The process of emulsion printing is another media exploration I have recently learned it can be slightly tricky when doing the first time but once I got hold of it, it was pretty straight forward. It all begins with cutting some material and printing out a picture. Once the material is cut so that the picture could sit comfortably on it the white matt emulsion layer is applied onto the materiel and the picture pressed facing down on top of it. Than all that's left is patience as it takes around 24h to air dry the prints before they are ready to be revealed.