A friend from my home town of Blackburn recently opened up a
small store selling screen prints, art supplies and street wear. While
discussing the business venture he asked me to submit a screen printed design
for the shops opening night on the 6th of March. Despite my hectic
workload the live brief was selected as an addition to my responsive module.
Not it only is the brief relevant to my print driven design practice but it is
also ethical and allows me to support a small up-an-coming business .
The brief was very open and no specific theme was set which
gave me a lot of creative freedom when it came to defining a concept for the
outcome. After recently watching a documentary about Japanese whaling ships I became
inspired to create a print based around the theme of the majestic whale.
The concept for the print is based around contrasting the
beauty of nature with the harshness of our modern industrial world. To achieve
this the print features an illustration of a dull commercial fishing harbour
rendered in a lifeless pallet of greys. Visually contrasting the monotonous
nature of the harbour is the explosive, multi-coloured spray from the whale
which is emerging in the foreground of the print. The base illustration of
whale and harbour was illustrated by hand and screen printed onto an A3 sheet
of paper, later the multicolured spray from the whale was added using acrylic
paint and a brush.
The only major problem arose while completing the printing
process which was unusual as I have extensive experience with the complete
screen printing process. Despite this, when selecting the three screens for
each layer of the print I managed to clean and expose three A4 screens rather
than three A3. Although the designs fit onto the screens there was only a small
boarder to the edge of the frame, this unfortunately affects how successfully
you can pull the squeegee over the design consequently affecting the quality of
the print.
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