Now that my motifs have been exposed onto screen I can start to this about composition of motifs. This weeks print room session was screen printing with pigment dye. I mixed my own pigment dyes in a range of colours what fit my colour pallet.
Pigment Dye
As a tester i just started off my doing a tester sample of all my motifs. It was nice to see how the motifs came out onto a simple cotton and I want to advance the screen printing further by printing onto other fabrics. I noticed that one some occasion if I took the squeegee over the motif more than one the motif doesn't come out as clear to if you only went over it once. An example of this is image 2.
Image.1 Image.2
I was surprised how quickly I picked up the techniques in from the Photoshop and Illustrator so this week I've been working on my digital designs. With digital designs I feel like you can layer up motifs more as you can alter the opacity. Where as in the print you you can't do that. I was also advised to draw up thumbnails of different design ideas in my sketch book to that I can clearly see my development from sketch book to practice. I printed one digital design out in LAB Colour and I was taken back by how the colour was not completely different to how it was showing on screen but they were more vivid. This is something I'm going to have to take into consideration when printing out my next digital designs. I would also like to digitally print onto a lighter fabric to see which designs work well on various fabrics.
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