Getting Started...

Recently I went to 'On The Wall', to have a chat with Simon, and show him some work which I had produced under the theme of Picnics. Simon seemed to really like the work I took him and said that it was crazy that I should take him lots of repeat pattern, as the shop is wanting to get together a collection of wrapping paper design now and Simon said my stuff would be perfect.

He's asked for me to screenprint my strawberry repeat design and we arranged a follow-up meeting for next Friday, to then show him the screenprinted design.

I emailed Simon yesterday, to ask specifically what he was expecting next Friday when I meet him, today he's emailed me back and set me up for my next weeks work and over the next few weeks.

My main focus is on the strawberry stuff, below this is what Simon talks about...

'As far as screen printed stuff goes, I’d love see to the ‘Hot-air-berry’ Screened... I think it’d would look amazing as a 2 or 3 part layered screen... I’m guessing you guys have access to water based inks? I’m really interested in images that have layers overlapping bold water based inks as it mixes colours where they are layered –( I’m sure you’ll be familiar!) Blows my tiny mind how cool it looks though!!....

I also like the idea of you screening the giant strawberry in maybe two colours , but each layer being slightly off-set so you get that almost 3d effect, then maybe using a spare laser cut stencil you could perhaps aerosol the hot air balloon over the top??... to be fair, I think however you go about it – it’s going to come out looking superb... I’m just all giddy right now about layered water based screens and then mixing that up with other processes like lino-cuts, fine lined illustration, stencils etc... Once you’ve made your screens up just bang out as many variations as you can be arsed to do!.. There are so many products I want to build up a folder of possibilities for I’d rather have too many options than too few.

Ok, so that’s Mr strawberry... he’s a winner, big, small, various colours, mix up the processes, use as much of the colleges paper as humanly possible!!'

This is really exciting... and is a good start to the 'professional project', it will hopefully set me up well for 3rd year as well and building this relationship with Simon is important.

Had a quick look at so 3D print work to give myself an idea of good colours to use...also looking at the kinds of images it's used in. Seeing as my image is simple dots with an illustration in the middle I think that it would suit this style of print.