I wrote the language for my proposal and I started printing my collages.
See Liv Varney page at right for updated proposal and objectives.
On Saturday I scanned one of the collages into the computer and brought it into photoshop. I chose to use one of the smaller 4x4 inch collages that I made recently. I printed two copies of the same image but they were both at different levels of contrast and texture. One of the images was formatted to a full threshold layer (making it look similar to a high contrast photo copy) and the other was formatted to have a halftone texture to it. Once I printed these two images out on paper I was excited to prepare the screen and burn the image into it. I printed a few proofs on canvas and a few on pieces of scrap cotton that I had.
This is what the two images look like before they're burnt into the screen.
After I washed the screen out it provided the two collages next to each other. This is what the screen looks like with the images burnt into it, (ignore the old YFC design on it, it may be hard to see the collages).
I chose to print some proofs today and this is what a few of them came out to look like.
This is what the thresh hold layer looks like when it's printed with black ink.
And this is the halftone layer by itself in red ink.
This is what that layer looks like with the halftone printed on top of it in a different color. I chose red because at the time, I felt that it would show the difference between the two layers. You can see that the red layer is over lapped because the print must have shifted on accident when I put the screen down. It looks kinda trippy.
I decided to play around a bit and print a halftone layer on a threshold print but I rotated it to the left. I thought it looked pretty cool I really like the textures and details that it created.
I think that this was a good start to experimenting with the collages. I'm really happy with how these came out. I plan to spend some day this week burning another collage into a screen of mine and seeing what I can come up with. I also plan to try dying some shirts with fabric dye.
the virtue (and one of the technical challenges) of t-shirts is, of course, that they're 3-dimensional, wrap around the torso. there's a before, and afters (first, and subsequent views).
ReplyDeleteI'd think of the t-shirt surface as the "place" where the alchemy happens. not photoshop, etc.
there'll be hits and misses, so be prepared for that, mentally (and financially!).
good to see the ongoing tests. keep em rolling!
for you too (I already pointed Tiffany in this direction), the essay on collage by Nancy Skolos and Thomas Wedell, in their Graphic Design Process (2011) is probably worth a read.