Blog Entry #10 - Silk Screening

For this alternative process, it was much more time consuming and complicated then the acrylic lift, but I was happy with the result. I had to get the silk screen, paint on the special ink in the darkroom, and then expose it to light while a negative was overtop. I then washed off the paint so that it was a see through image on the canvas. I can now use it to paint that image onto whatever I choose.

I chose this photo for the silk screen because I thought the landscape looked like a painting and would be effective as a print to transfer to other mediums, like a T-shirt or canvas. The image breaks the composition rules because the path through the forest is in the middle of the picture rather than following the rule of thirds. But this works well in this case to give depth to the landscape and pull the viewer’s eyes into the picture to explore the forest in the distance. I was attracted by the ghostly figures created by the tall pines and the leafless birch trees with their silver bark. Together with the other features such as the rocks, moss and fog, this scene reminds me of a prehistoric setting where you wonder what strange creatures lurk in the forest.