Final print designs
DIMENSIONS AND FINAL COMPOSITIONS
In preparation for the Christmas break I redesigned my three compositions to fit the 30cm x 30cm lino format so they could be heat pressed ready for cutting over the Christmas break. When choosing between lino and screen print, another consideration I had was about the dimensions of the work. If I had chosen to do screen print, the images would have been A3 portrait to resemble a 60s gig // music poster, drawing on Murakami's work, his musical inspiration and his counter culture rebellious views. If I chose lino as my primary print process however, as I have, I decided the format would be square to resemble a 12 inch record sleeve, again drawing upon Murakami, music and culture; but in a slightly different way.
2 COLOUR PRINT
When deciding how to incorporate two colours into my print it did occur to me that I had a few options. I could use a gradient type of effect as previously tested, but I was unsure of how this would be read and may give the prints a bit of a 'tacky' or 'blurry' feel rather than a crisp finalised product. I also thought about perhaps monoprinting the original stock a burnt orange and then printing the lino on top using a dark blue ink but after a discussion with my peers we decided that could retract from the detail of the print itself; making it appear messy or cluttered. I decided in the end to simply print the figure and linework in dark blue and the text a dark orange using a stamping method as I feel this will reap more successful prints. Because of this the text and image will have to be cut on separate linos, meaning there are five linos in total for me to cut out.
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