I’ve learnt the basics of turning images to bitmaps and separating the colours of images last night, in preparation for screen printing at the SoA. I’ve separated the image I made last semester into cyan, magenta, yellow and black in greyscale. Then made the halftone screen frequency to 30 because I divided the silk screen the SoA uses (120T) by 4 and adjusted the angles of the screen depending on the colour.

I photographed a cast of a hand a few years ago – It’s a test piece for screen printing.

The moiré effect is interesting because it references the grid.

I’ve ordered printmaking materials at Jackson’s Art yesterday, so it should arrive in the next few days, and I can start monoprinting.

The reasoning behind why I’m screen printing is because it utilises my other skills on Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. For me it makes sense to combine the skills to make art – I’m researching Andy Warhol’s screen printing techniques in the meantime. It’s interesting that he usually makes prints of desirable symbols of culture, whereas I’m making prints of undesirable symbols such as a skull and face mask.

[After thought: I might start reading on Simulacra and simulation by Baudrillard because I mentioned ‘symbols of culture’.]