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Following an inspired suggestion from Liz Adamson, I am working on a series of paintings based on the final version of the CMYK screenprint. I subconsciously was a bit heavy handed with the Magenta layer which resulted in the colour of this final version turning out quite similar to the hue of Caldero Colorado. The first painting is in acrylic on canvas. It's a couple of years since I did a large canvas work, so I am using this one to practise various techniques and printing ideas. Actual size is 1020 x 920mm and I worked on a cropped version of the screenprint. This painting went through a couple of revisions as follows... ...but I never was able to make it work for me, so I had to shelve it the idea of working directly from a source. What I was able to salvage, however, was the idea of extracting what interested me about the CMYK screenprint images - such as the lines of single colour that appear when slight mis-registration is allowed to occur in the printing pr...

Getting back into college over the last couple of weeks has been a shock to the system as always. After group crit with tutor Liz Adamson and her third year students, I had a useful discussion with student Lydia Honeybone about CMYK screen-printing process. Thanks for your help Lydia. Decided to get straight to work in the printmaking workshop, before it gets too busy. Having chosen one of my digital images to work with, I used Photoshop to separate 4 colour-way screens of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Key as demonstrated by Lydia. This week I have printed the acetates and had the screens prepared with the help of printmaking intern Natasha. I mixed paint to approximate tones of cyan and magenta and printed the first two layers. It felt great to be back screen-printing. It's two years since I did my last screen-printing project and I had almost forgotten how satisfying it is.      Original Image: Red Tubes     Cyan separation     Magenta...