Hawk print – making the print
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
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
Karen McCarthy Woolf was born in London to an English mother and Jamaican father. Her poetry pamphlet The Worshipful Company of Pomegranate Slicers was selected as a New Statesman Book of the Year. She is also an editor.
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