Starflower Print Experiments #1

I have recently been getting back into the flow of experimenting more with screen printing, particularly using colour overlays with the starflower pattern that I made (it's called starflower because it reminds me of both a star and a flower)Below are some of examples of the print experiments I have been working on over the past couple of days, the finished prints will be turned into notebook covers and I may do a run of scrapbook paper as well. 

Let me know what you think

The darker green in this image is a metallic ink.

comparing the colour on yellow and white card stock.

colour overlay of dark green, light green and yellow.

I like that if you look closely you can see the dots from the silk screen.

Bird Progress - Orange Breasted Bunting #1

I've been making some progress on my new project, one of the birds that I am printing is the Orange Breasted Bunting (which is a bird that is indigenous to Mexico).

obviously I can't mixed the colours to match exactly the same as the colour of the actual bird so the colours in my prints will vary.

All the components that make up the bird are put onto one screen, I know it would be a lot easier to put each component onto a separate screen but when you only have 4 screens at your disposal its a bit of a push so I have to make do with putting all of the components onto one screen. 

He is now starting to resemble a bird (to me any way), I have forgot how long the process is to print birds.

Print Experiment #3

Ok so you are all probably getting sick of seeing flowers on this blog now, but I have a couple more posts on them to come and then I think I will put them to rest.... at the end of the day I can't go on printing flowers forever right? even I'll get sick of them after a time.

These are the last few prints that I have created for The Boutique Market Christmas Fayre on Sunday 1st Dec, as it's my first Christmas and craft fayre I wanted to make sure that I had a variety of prints to take with me. I know it's all going to be flowers, trees, owls (and maybe a robin or 2) but in the time that I have had to produce the prints I haven't really been able to explore other 'themes' or 'subjects' (please remember that I do work full time as a designer so that only leaves me an hour or so in the evenings and a sunday to do any printwork). However I do have some new ideas that I want to explore in the coming weeks (and they don't involve trees, flowers or birds!) so make sure you keep an eye out.

You'll probably notice that I have used pretty much the same colours in all of my prints, the idea behind this was to use colours that related to actually colour of the flowers that I used for each of the prints. Just thought I'd add that in.