Coming to an end...

I am now writing my evaluation for this project, and I can honestly say I much prefer the making to the writing about the making! I have really enjoyed this project, and will defiantly carry on using the skills I have learnt.

Owl Owl Owl Turtle

Now that I am starting to understand colour I am really enjoying it! And the project is almost finished which is just typical! 

These images below I made using scans of mono prints and again putting them as a layer behind my line work in photoshop. My mono print was originally dark blue and yellow, but I played about with the colours in the hue and saturation drop down in photoshop. I think it's quite nice to come away from the traditional colours used for an owl. I saw the blue and purple and thought it worked well with the owls face blue, making the stare seem even colder, like stone. 

I added another mono print layer to the turtle in the image below. I don't really like this though, I don't think it's very balanced as a whole image. There defiantly needs to be more colour somewhere but I need to play about with where it should be.

The image below is my final and favourite. I did want their to be colour on the bottom part of the image, but instead of adding the mono print to the turtle I added it to the background and then faded it out to the top of the picture. I think this works, the balance of white in the image works better like this because it is at both the top and the bottom (the turtle)

Angry Owl

I decided to use some of the mono prints that I am not going to hand into my elective and work into them further. I scanned this mono print onto my computer. I changed the levels so that it was much darker, I want to create a feel of autumn and anger with my colours of this image. I placed my other image from before where I drew an owl over a turtle. I removed the turtle and placed the owl so it appeared to be on the branch of the print. I added some colour to a layer between my background and my line work so that the owl stands forwards of the dark background. I then just played about with colours and added some lines to the branches of the tree so that the foreground and background didn't seem to separate.

I am really happy with this image, and although it hasn't all been made in the print room I think it's quite nice to use lots of different processes and gather them all together in photoshop. It seems like a useful middle ground!

The image above is that same as the first image, but I have hidden all line work. I quite like that the image is reliant on just shape (which is something I NEVER do!). I'm not sure if I like it just because I understand that the bright yellow marks are supposed to be staring eyes, it might not be as clear to other people that it is a pissed off owl on a branch where the leaves are falling off.

OBSESSED!

This project has made me realise something, that I partially already knew, but this brief has confirmed it for me. I am a very obsessive learner. Ridiculously so.

When I researched about Iain McArthur I became obsessed and this began to influence my work and change the way I consider my lines when I draw them. And now with the print room! I have always loved the print room but I really really think that print it the way that I want to take my work. Even if I am just using elements of print to create bigger images. I just love the process and finished product of a good print.

Working in print has made me change the way that I think about making an image. When working with Lino you really have to think about areas of light and dark before thinking about areas of colours. When working with screen print I find it good to have both delicate line work and some looser shapes and areas that don't necessarily matter if they align differently each time. 

After this project I really want to develop my work both in the print room and with colour and line work. I'm starting to get really excited with the work that I am creating :D