Hawk print – making the print
colours painted into the screen
After all the time spent thinking, sketching, planning and sketching again, the printing process is fast and furious. I spent a whole day in the print studio: in the morning I exposed the artwork into the screen and mixed my colours, and in the afternoon I made the print.
inks mixed ready to print the exposed screen
the first layer drying on the rack
layer two: a blend of purple and brown to add detail
layer 3 - green/blue highlights
I overprinted the image with words to bring the three parts of the tryptich together, and finally added the feathers – I used real feathers in the exposure unit with the hand drawn artwork, and then printed the ‘negative’ image by painting the ink straight onto the screen – the same method I used for the first layer.
the final print
Tags: hawk, poetry and art, print making, screenprinting