The second layer that needed to be added to the screenprint was the red blood on the lady's shawl and dress. The alignment turned out alright actually and I quite liked the quality of the colours overlapping, but because I knew this was just an initial screenprint practice I didn't want to waste any time on finishing off the black layer, and left it as it was.
My original idea for Printed Pictures went in a seperate direction from the one I planned to use for Moving pictures; in Printed Pictures, I wanted to focus more on the ridiculous imbalance of wealth that had been created with the free-market capitalist strategies that Naomi Klein writes about - where a small amount of people hold more wealth that the poorest people do collectively.
I've always found the need/desire for money on that scale to be wastefully decadent - and this modern 'elite' reminded me a lot of the old aristocracy a lot. Therefore, I wanted the screenprints to visually represent this - lots of intricate, black detailed lines, almost reminiscent of early etchings, black & white against a solid, bold colour - A2 in size and in your face. I also thought this would be good because it push me out of my drawing comfort zone into drawing something more heavy in detail.
Eventually, after chatting with eleanor and after the faff of screenprinting the first 'test' piece, I decided that the idea was too complicated, the drawings would have taken too long and that A2 would be far too difficult a scale to work at - so I scaled the idea down as well as the screenprints.
My original idea for Printed Pictures went in a seperate direction from the one I planned to use for Moving pictures; in Printed Pictures, I wanted to focus more on the ridiculous imbalance of wealth that had been created with the free-market capitalist strategies that Naomi Klein writes about - where a small amount of people hold more wealth that the poorest people do collectively.
I've always found the need/desire for money on that scale to be wastefully decadent - and this modern 'elite' reminded me a lot of the old aristocracy a lot. Therefore, I wanted the screenprints to visually represent this - lots of intricate, black detailed lines, almost reminiscent of early etchings, black & white against a solid, bold colour - A2 in size and in your face. I also thought this would be good because it push me out of my drawing comfort zone into drawing something more heavy in detail.
Eventually, after chatting with eleanor and after the faff of screenprinting the first 'test' piece, I decided that the idea was too complicated, the drawings would have taken too long and that A2 would be far too difficult a scale to work at - so I scaled the idea down as well as the screenprints.
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