Screen Print Samples.

This is an image of the VW beetle car screen printed
on dip dyed linen scrim and then stitched into.

 This screenprint was on white white linen scrim which didn't look right with my colour palette
so I dyed the background with coffee and then again stitched into it.

 Another screen print on line scrim again dyed with coffee and stitched into.

 This image has been screen printed onto light silk habotai.



I really enjoyed print it was quite challenging trying to get your colour Palette right and varying the patterns across the fabric. The fabric had chosen was white linen scrim  which was far too light for the background of my of my colour palette. So I decided the best way round this is to to dye the background colour coffee, and the best into use was coffee itself. I was pleased with the results as I felt the screen printing was not as stark as the white background. After I finished the samples I decided to stitching to them to add some texture and I felt this worked and I could see that some of the images could be made up to cushions and curtains. I haven't yet decided whether I really like them or not. I think I will have to wait to get all my work together and see how it works for the presentation.

Storey's Art Gallery

 These are the beautiful stained glass windows along the corridor towards the main gallery.
Just past the windows you can see the arches towards the main gallery.

 This is a lovely photograph of the statue of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in the recess of the main gallery .

I was invited to the opening of the North Face Exhibition held at Lancaster's Storey's Art gallery.
The North Face Exhibition consists of local artists from the Lune Valley Trail and has been shown around Britain. In the main gallery room exhibits the artists paintings/drawings and the room off the main gallery exhibits the artists self portraits. The exhibition was very busy the first night we had the mayor and the local MP to open the exhibition.

The Storey's  art gallery was originally the Lancaster art school before it was transferred to Preston.
The art school was known as the Storey's Institute and had been art school from the 1900s. When the  school closed it was empty for a few years and then a few local artists got together and opened it as a gallery. The gallery held local exhibitions and the more well-known artists of Britain, example: Basil Beattie, Andy Goldsworthy and Michael Brennan-wood just to mention a few.

 Inside the picture gallery.

 Photograph of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert statue in the picture gallery.

 Busy night at the opening of the gallery.

 This is the room that leads off the main gallery which is exhibiting the self-portrait pictures of the artists themselves.

 Another photograph taken of the opening.

  as you can see is a very fine building.

 Another picture of the main gallery.

 The main gallery.

 This is a photograph of David Davies  who originally set up the North Face exhibition.

I really enjoyed the opening and to see so many people interested in local artists and their art !

Karl Blossfeldt

Karl Blossfeldt Was the German photographer born 1865 – 1932.
German photographer who uses fantastic photographs of plants to educate students about the design  elements in nature. He devoted himself to the study of nature, photographing nothing but flowers, buds and seeds for 35 years.  His photographs are recognised as vital contributions of photography to this day.

 These are just a few of his black-and-white photographs taken of flowers and plants and seeds. Most certainly a very interesting photographer who I would like to spend more time studying.

Unfinished samples of screen print.

 I have masked part of my screen off to produce the image above.

 This is the whole of my screen been printed out at once. 

Here are pictures  of my unfinished samples during screen printing.

 This is a partial screen print which I have done on cotton mix silk.

 This is the finished  screen print but unfortunately they aren't my colour palette.



 The above samples are not my colour palette  so I need to rethink my colour palette to get it right. The top samples, the background is too white and the bottom samples are the wrong pinks for my colour palette. So now I'm going back to blue sky thinking until I get my colours right.

Colour palette

This is the colour palette I am going to be using for my printing.

Data Collection

 This is noise data from Manchester airport.

 VW beetle 1962 instruction manual.

This is my drawing from the car manual of the VW beetle.

 These are numbers taken from actual flights from Manchester airport.

This is where I got some of my data from for my printing brief as well as my maths data.
 Also I'm showing you my flower data. I photographed the flowers over a number of weeks as they
 blossomed from a bud.

 This is the first photographs I took with the flower in bud.  As you can see the flower is slowly opening to reveal inside of the flower.

 The flower opens a little bit more.

 The flower now is fully open to reveal its glory.

The Choice of Motifs For Printing

  These are my motifs for my printing screen.

 These are actual flights numbers that fly out of Manchester airport.

 This  image is taken from a 1962 car manual for a VW beetle. 

 This image was adapted from a field hydrogeology in a maths book.

This is another image taken from a calculation in a maths book.

 This motif is taken from Manchester airport noise data.

 This is from my flower data which has been drawn on Illustrator.

 Here I multiplied the image for my screen.

 This is another image I created on Illustrator from my flowered data.

 This is my preview of my print screen which I will be using in the print room using the colours from my palette.

 These are the motifs I have created from my data. I really enjoyed doing these these motifs and I had a difficult choice to choose which motifs I would use on my screen.  My motifs are made up from maths images, airport data, flower.