Zoya's SAS Blog

So this was the first of our painting unit and the first of our watercolor as well. We took reference photos of maps and collaged them into a piece with three sections and in each section we had to use water color pencils to create some kind of color scheme. For my first section I did a monochromatic one in blue, for the second section I did an analogous color scheme with red, red orange and orange and for the last one I did a complementary color scheme with yellow and purple. I enjoyed making this since I was able to use watercolor pencils and make something that I think looks really nice. 

This was our last print project and this time we used screen printing. Before using the screen at all we had to prepare the backgrounds. The first stemp was to put ink on to a palate and use different tools to make places where there would be no color and designs, this would become the first layer. The second one was where we put a stencil on styrofoam, traced out what we wanted and then used that as our second layer after printing. After that, we had to make a stencil for the animal that we wanted to show on our project. I decided to make a squid and so cut it out of some butcher paper. I then had one cut out that would produce an image where the print would only show inside and where the print would show outside. That's where the screen comes in. We placed our prints on the paper and laid the screen over top. We put a row of ink at the top of the screen and then dragged the ink across it to lay it on the paper. Once you lifted the screen voila! Your print was done. Then I...