Experimentation 2

Changing colours of my screen printing:

Using the Hue and Saturation adjustment layer I was able to change the colours of the multi coloured screen print that I produced.

I selected each colour individually and changed the saturation and hue for that one colour specifically. This allowed me to make the images have more contrast however the quality deteriorates as the colours are adjusted more. This is because the orange has very distinct strong areas and weak areas of saturation.

The purples and pinks on the face are ghastly; almost blinding which is why I dislike this image. I also adjusted the saturation down however is quickly becomes a strange grey, very boring.

The same applies to this image. The colours of the face are so intense that it is almost impossible to work with this print digitally so I am going to stick with the original colours as they look natural to the image.

Using Ink and Paint

During this task I was told to create an image using images I already had, paint and ink. This is a form of physical manipulation to an image. I have chosen images from a previous fashion project.

 This is the first image that I used. I thought that I should start very basically with paint however I disliked the innitial result and decided to use my hands to blur the colours which revealed parts of the image. In particular the face of the model had become visable across the eyes and mouth. This makes the image spooky to look at because all the details are not visable; like something is being hidden from the veiwer. I think that this vould have been more effective with shades of black since as the image is already made to be quite eerie and the black could be interpretted as the aura the character is trying to display. It could also be taken as a protective shield just like the face paint that she is wearing.

The second attempt I decided that I would use black and white ink to drip onto the paper; however when this looked too boring I tipped the image to let the ink fall down the page. I think that the colour revearsal works a lot better because it seems to act like a veil which is adding to the eerie appearance of the image. The original image shows the model already wearing black and white face paint, this shows an advancement of the 'masks' depth in the image.

Using a different image I wanted to use the ink to make something like a picture card often used to evaluate phsycological sanity. However the different inks have really mixed together and not worked out how I had hoped. I feel that this method might slow my down and not create strong results so I go back to dripping the ink.

I feel that this image has potential to be stronger, although I would have to use a more viscous ink or paint like acrilic paint. The ink simply was too thin and ran down the page to fast for it to be absorbed. This image was to originally to show the fear that some people carry with them when they gamble and now it shows more of the result. this would be a following image to the original work I did to create this image.

Caravan gallery task

I am going to look at the Caravan Gallery postcards. It is a collaboration between two practitioners Jan Williams and Chris Teasdale. They have traveled the country with their caravan that they use as a gallery and shop to sell postcards. Their images are very provocative because they dont exactly focus on the good parts of the subject. they are usually very grungy and somewhat dirty because of some of the compositions and subjects.

I have been given the task to create a postcard in a similar style to theirs regarding the layouts and the subjects.

All of these postcards have very similar template. They all use a block colour for the background and use bold white text. The images have a border between them, however they are pushed to the edge of the card. Between 4 and 6 images have been used. The card is then separated every time straight through the middle. The images used are very classical to the location, very stereotypical. It makes the location look very cliche. They have also used very saturated colours which reminds me of work by Martin Parr. Colours used as the background is also highlighted in the images with saturation to make the images stand out.

I think I am going to use all the circled images for my postcard because it is in the recommended number of images. 

The first thing I did was make the template at 148x105mm which is the size of a postcard. I then turned it red since as there are red areas in all the images I have chosen. I then saturated the images separate to the template with crops, then I flattened the image and transfered them over to the template. Positioned them up with guides so that it matched the examples and added another layer for the text which I made white.