collaborative screen printing

Over the last two days we have had to a mini project where we had to work in groups to collaborate our current work to create a design, to then screen print.

Within my group we were under the catergory of Nature, therefore we based our dsign around branches, which later came to look like coral and tenticles.

We began the process by initiating how we want our print to look and what we want it to focus on, we choose organic shapes and textures.We then photocopied a piece of all of our indepdent project to gather marks and textured pieces to then use to create an image. We explored different compositions and choose the last image as we believed it represented all of our work rather than just a few.

We then had to mimic this pattern using black paper to test whether the image was a succesfuk black and white image, and therefore suitable for screen print, as it does nto allow tnes of grey.

Whilst doing this we developed our idea further by choosing to use the pattern and textures within the blank areas rather than as the branches as we felt it would work better as a surface pattern rather than just a screen printed image.

We then layed down the asotate over the black and white image and collaged,painted and printed into the areas that there was no black occupation,which resulted in the image above. We believe that this has some interesting marks but we then had to work over it over a light box to try and emphasise some of the grey tones so that they could be printed also. I look forward to the outcome as i feel it will have lots of free marks and experiementation on it.