About the Author: Screenprint Workshop

I love screenprinting! But at the time I didn't think any of the work I had done was appropriate for screenprint so since it was just for a workshop I cheated and threw some photographs I found online together. To make them suitable for sceenprint positives I used the "Threshold" option on the photographs.

I had been using red and black for almost everything so far and I was stuck in my way of thinking that that cliche colour scheme worked, but at this point I was pretty sick of it. Also I wanted to do something overlayable as the printing inks are translucent. Digitally making my positives allowed me  to see what the colours I chose would look like overlayed. I wanted to do the raven a colour that you would be able to see Poe's face through. In the end I decided on still using black, for Poe and overlaying a blue/green raven. 

I'm pretty happy with how this turned out and am thinking that this green/blue colour scheme works better than red and black. Also I dig how despite Poe being in black ink, the blue still changes the colour of it slightly! My printer was running out of ink when I printed the positives but I like the scratchy texture that gave.