Movie Series - First Screen Printing Project
Bit of an ambitious first project to get me ramped-up on some screen printing skillz. Had a lot of fun here, the subject matter is about movies and TV shows both myself and my wife really liked/loved.
I just went with one-color black on special off-white paper card. The dot pattern is known as 'halftone', this is how old school comic books were printing; faking continuous color and blending. I've always liked this technique and think it gives a gritty 'abstraction' to these images.
This is a personal project; the artwork is hanging on my wall creating an 'entertainment area'. Have a click through and read WHY I chose the images I did. Did you know all these characters ? What would be on your wall ?
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The 'Entertainment Wall'
A bit more about the process...
This series took me a few months to get through. Every step was trial and error on designs, screen setups, emulsion behavior, cleaning screens and going again etc etc. I totally wrecked my basement shower cleaning ink off of screens 🤦. Here's the list of papers I bought and experimented with. I tested on a bunch of others also, stuff I had lying around, tracing paper, sketch pad etc just to get a feel/vibe for textures, off-whites.
| Paper | Stock | Sheet Size | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Omnilux Opaque Digital | Cardstock | 17 x 11 | 100lb / 271g |
| Speckletone Madero Beach | Cardstock | 11 x 17 | 125lb / 340g |
| Environment Concrete Raw Finish | Cover | 11 x 17 | 80lb / 216g |
| Paperworks Prestige Coated-1-Side | Cardstock | 11 x 17 | 10pt / 200g |
| Classic Linen Antique Gray | Cover | 11 x 17 | 80lb / 216g |
A few pics from messing around and experimenting, making a mess, testing paper stocks, rolling ink and printing over it, slapping down acrylic paints and printing over that. Fun times. Then pulling everything together. I shuffled the deck a few times on the floor before sticking them up on the wall.
Sketchy, sketchy...
I ran through a lot of 'high contrast' techniques, from stencil to linework to different halftone patterns. Here are just a few that didn't make the cut.
FYI - the color theme used here comes from the Franklin Mountains > Wood Fractals palette.
Michael Corleone
The Garden Scene from Godfather I with Michael and The Don were the first 2 prints I did on this project... so a lil rougher than the others 🙂
I was trying to do Michael from Godfather III, when his daughter gets shot on the steps; but the image I 'thought' was in the movie was ...not the actual scene. I had a 'memory' of Michael holding his daughter like The Pieta.
I wanted to do this image because it was so gut-wrenching; one of the saddest scenes in movie history. Pacino reaches to the depths of his soul on that one 😠😠ðŸ˜
But it just didn't translate as well - had to have Michael and Don from the 'beginning', The Garden Scene...