In comparison to yesterday, today was a success! I managed to clean up/ neaten up my wallpaper designs in AVA whilst I was waiting for the print room to free up. I also created more designs as I wasn't 100% sure on some compositions and I still need to fully decide on the colour ways and designs- I colour separated all the successful ones and am trying to understand what makes these successful. I am finding it hard to visualise them in a much larger scale.
Adding some more line and hand drawn aspects into the wallpaper designs has helped it flow a bit more and cover the design evenly so that the design doesn't look as disjointed and as if it's "floating".
By tomorrow evening I am going to have my wallpaper designs finalised and hopefully sent off to be printed over in Guntons on the large format printer.
I aim to have 4 final designs- this includes the 2 that I will submit for two categories for the Idott competition.
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| design with added lines and markings- behind |
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| Repeating in length only. This would be approx 1.5 m. I am unsure if this is too small- or if i should alter the large coloured shapes so that the repeat is more subtle? |
I applied my three neutrals to the 1 metre pieces of cotton this evening and I now have 5 pieces that are ready to be printed on tomorrow and next week. I used the new screen that I created yesterday to add some pale background textures and details- over laying the pale colours over the other pale colours created an interesting tonal effect which should work well once I add darker colours and larger shapes and lines.
I came across a few issues yesterday and still encountered some today but overcame them by taking my time and not rushing and then making silly mistakes. Today I didn't use a screen to print not he background and this worked much better than yesterday. The open screen was blocked yesterday which gave me texture and marks on the fabric and also meant that the colour was much richer and deeper (which is not what I had planned). I had tested pulling these colours through the screen on a smaller scale as I knew that the shade would change by doing this- but I was happy with the results. I think that the change in shade occurred when I scaled up the dye recipe. Because I am using such a small amount of dye- normally about 0.01 grams of each colour per 200g, this means that the scales do not normally recognise the dye. So when doubling/ tripling up the amounts of the dye, it wasn't accurate and then made the shade much darker.
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| NEW SCREEN!! |
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| Pale background with initial pale markings as the background |