I spent a lot of time trying to think of ideas for this image. I considered trying to draw something thematically interesting but took too long on this so settled on concentrating on making the image itself interesting, even if the idea behind it was a little boring.
I was mainly interested in interesting angles and viewpoints. I liked the idea of s birds-eye viewpoint though didn't know how to not make it look so flat until it was suggested I consider more into foreground midground and background.
Although I usually find thumbnailing in a sketchbook the most effective process I was struggling to compose so sketched lots of individual elements into Photoshop and rearranged them using the software. As I arranged I also found myself considering line of sight more too.
I was pleased with my final image but not so much the prints I pulled! I lost a lot of pressure on my pulls towards the outer edges and wonder if using a longer squeegee would counteract this- the pressure lost the points on my hands would not hit the image. I also had trouble aligning prints! I wonder if this is because there were two of us printing on the screen at one time, but I cannot blame my tools!However I'm very pleased with the colours, and the overlay they created was bolder and more significant than I expected.
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| I flooded the screen too much, and though it looks bad elsewhere it makes an interesting effect on the swimmer- adding depth and the illusion she is underwater. It was an accident but a nice way of making an image- perhaps if I had made it a three colour screen print I would consider deliberately creating this. |
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| misaligned |
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