I really enjoyed screen printing today for the Visual Narratives first brief - a hotdog book. I've used this process before a couple of times but I really want to experiment with it more because I love the variety of effects you can get with it. For example:
Natalya Balnova in the first two - a good example of hand-drawn screen-printing and a lovely use of overlapping colours. Kristyna Baczynski in the last one - a digital approach but still a lovely use of overlapping colours to create different hues.
This is our hotdog book. Although there were some things that went wrong (detailed on my Studio Practice blog), I think experimenting more with screen printing is the only way to get better! So I want to use as many opportunities as possible to get in the print room and improve my practice.
I've actually also started on a personal project, which I hope I'll have time to complete. It'll be at least one poster based on song lyrics by my favourite band FIDLAR. After lunch in the studio session today, I kind of hit that stage of the day where you're a bit tired and can't be bothered to do what you need to do (it happens sometimes, sorry!). But I started doodling the lyrics of the songs I was listening to on my iPod.
I really liked the grungey handmade paint effect of the type - it reminded me of the Queens of the Stone Age album artwork by Boneface, 'Like Clockwork' (I'm starting to notice that I mention Boneface and this piece of work in particular quite a lot - he's one of my favourite illustrators!!):
That kind of type really suits the surf punk genre FIDLAR are, and their first album cover is similarly consisted of messy type (pictured below).
Anyway, from these lyric doodles, I got this idea for a poster, putting all the lyrics to a song on one A3 (or even A2?) sheet and maybe adding some illustrations fitting the song. For example, here, I've drawn some punks because the song is called... you guessed it, 'Punks'.
This is what I've developed so far - I've done a few versions because it's hard to know how to fit all the song lyrics on one sheet until you actually play around with size and placement. I'm going to do more (I hope) but I need to focus on our set briefs primarily.
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