Screen Print Induction 2 notes

colour spotting - working with channels

• go on grayscale, channels, dropdown dialog box - new spot channel
• stay on the coloured spot channel but select black for ink - is really black but you can visualise in other colour
• you can use different tones of grey - comes out as different tonal values of printing ink 
• To nock out - select area with wand one one layer - go onto other layer, click delete - on dropdown change to white 
• To fill in pre drawn areas - Select area with wand tool on black channel then fill selected area on coloured channel - if not a totally closed area use lasoo selection tool 
• to edit line art colour etc - create new spot colour channel - select, all - copy across from grey channel then turn that one off
• to paste texture across into area - select texture - lassoo? - select area to paste it into using wand - right clock - paste into (edit, paste special, paste into)
• When you save - save as PS document and have spot colour box checked 
• to print - change into halftone image - open illustrator, create new CMYK doc, paste
• Window, separations preview, tick overprint preview - untick what isn't spot colour (CMYK)
• Print - (on BandW) output, mode, separations - untick CMYK
• On line art layer - change angle to 15
• On spot with tonal variation - change angle to 75 - change dots to 50 or below - 30 nice 
• FINITO

Further Carter research (personal notes)

Recurring themes -

The clock striking 12 - woman in company of man - shocked at how late it is

Woman - pale, naked, skinny -young innocent female with older man

Powerful man in secluded castle - entraps woman

Contrast - idea of beauty being an illusion - cover the dark truth - runs through every story - extreme beauty, hope, happiness - all an illusion covering something dark/ twisted - the reality

Characters - fevers, clowns/ Locations - bloody chamber, circus, brothel, Mr Lyon’s castle

woman looking at herself through a mans eyes/ as a man might and seeing something ugly - saw beauty until they were with a man

(bloody chamber, Mr Lyon) - eyes crops up a lot - whats behind them - rep how they see woman - nothing behind eyes woman as object, beautiful reflection of self - how you start to see yourself as your man sees you?

Man rep as beast (lonely - sad nothingness behind eyes) - masked to cover true identity - sometimes dark ugliness beneath, sometimes gentle beast

Woman rep by white roses and lilies - always white rep purity/ verginity - flowers dying when things turn sour - hope (dark scenes - no flowers/ dead), purity, happiness - recurring pricking finger on rose so that it is smeared in blood

Recurring curious female - disobeying greater power - man - young curious / powerful older woman able to control man

Marks of the past - trying to cover things up - heart of blood/ clown paint/ masks of beastly men - literal cover up 

Older man controlling younger naive woman - trapping and objectifying her - woman referred to as lamb (sacrificial), man tiger - lots of literal female sacrifice

Recurring forrests - isolation - spooky stillness

Entrapment of woman in marriage - relates to her own experience 

Fun Literal Imagery to draw:

Chopping of wolf poor (red eyes) - trail of blood left - turning into warty human hand

Tiger’s bride clockwork twin - music box heart, strings

Some spooky settings - sepia setting with cut trees TB/ WW witchy vampire setting, BC castle - railway, sea

Eyes - flames in tiger/ Her face reflected twice like buds in green eyes

Bride’s skin being ripped off - turning into a tiger 

Mr Lyon’s house - single rose/ window lit

Mr Lyon - Lyon in tails

‘cobra headed funeral lilies’ 

Girl in BC - pale face, muscles sticling out like thin wire 

Mirrors - reflected lilies, ‘bare as a lamb chop’ ’stripping leaves of artichoke’ - woman as meat/ food/ object

Description of lily stalks looking like dismembered arms in vase

mocking objects - illusion of life - shoes on feet , hats on heads etc.

Dead wives in BC - candles, lilies, skull, pale corpse, torture equipment, coffin, blood spill

Cleaning bloody key under dolphin gold tap

Mother from bloody chamber on horseback - white hair swept - black windswept clothing, pistol

I am going to start drawing some of the more liberal things just to see where it takes me - I was initially playing around with broader themes like the objectification of women/ drawing women as literal objects etc. But i'm not sure how Angela Carter this is going to look at the end - too editorial??

Generally I found nights at the circus more interesting than the bloody chamber I like the magical realism and circus imagery - but in my last tutorial they said it was very un angela carter ?? - question this ..

At the moment I am most interested in this recurring theme of beauty being an illusion to hide the darkness behind things.- disguise/ covering up the true nature of things - masks - makeup etc.

draw some of the beasts ? lion man - clockwork woman - walser as shaman 

Do an illustration for each story - that represents it ?? - sums it up?

draw some literal metaphors 

Some more imagery from the end of the circus book

Screenprint Induction notes

• SCALE / RES : Check res = 300ppi - If you're going to scale up then scan higher res, untick resample to change res to 300 (this will altar width/ height) - then retick resample and you can change w/ h to exact measurements
• COLOUR : to remove colour in RGB - Image, Adjustments, Desaturate
• CONTRAST : Change either using levels - lay arrows on top of each other or image, adjustments, threshold - move single arrow 
• PRINT : to black and white laser printer - in print studio

• TO ADD 2ND COLOUR - do in new layer - add block colour over line drawing? 
•  TO SEE WHAT TWO COLOURS LOOK LIKE PRINTED - change panel next to opacity from normal to multiply 
• if you don't want to see through - just select, rub out colour 
• CHANGE LAYER COLOUR TO REP INK - you can use hue/ saturation adjustment layer to colourise - just turn off layer when negative prints
• You can still nock out shapes, add them in just using shape tools - if you draw a shape you can click across layers and fill it on multiple ones 
• SIMULATE PAPER STOCK - add another layer - behind background - multiply scanned image so you can see through the white page (make sure all adjustments are applied just to the layer below)
• MAKE POSITIVE TO PRINT - duplicate coloured layer, lock transparency (b and w check board) - locks checkered pixels - then fill 

• TURNING IMAGE TO CYAN MAGENTA etc. i.e. A photo - change to CMYK, go on channels - next to layers menu to see layers separately 
• place image in illustrator, print settings - A4, output settings - change from composite to separations to see different colour separations - change frequency to no higher than 50 !! (so dots come out) - can make bigger (30 about right). All colour dots need to be at different angles too in rosette formations - 15, 75, 105, 155
  

Study Task 2 : Editorial Illuatrators

Chris Madden

 

 
- Love simplicity of visual metaphors - simple play with shape/ scale
- Interesting digital, hand drawn interplay (scans in each textured cut out component then assembles/ colours them on photoshop)


Jeffrey Decoster

 

 

- Uses sharp juxtapositions/ ambiguity to deal with difficult subject matter - viewer forced to join dots
- Creates images using mixed analogue media/ digitally manipulates them (to create dramatic juxtapositions etc.)

Study Task 1 : About the Author Zine

• Looking at the dark reality of clowning - what lies behind the wet white - the painted smile.

• I used texture to represent the wet white - as you move through the zine the text gets darker and the wet white is stripped exposing the ugliness beneath.

• I found what was discussed in the session about illustrators creating one off hand crafted objects interesting - I wanted to explore this.

• In the crit four people said this isn’t illustration, where are the images. I disagree, I have still visually clarified the text.