BFA Show-Permanent Exhibit Online

If you can't make my show (https://www.facebook.com/events/137866029713252/), then you can visit and order online anytime.

Hakuna Matata...www.christinasinger.com/bfashow. Just contact me, www.christinasinger.com/contact.

Doodlemation...

a brief "Bored-Doodlemation"

...inspired by my pastime :)

Practice BFA show

My "practice" Show is up in the Submarine gallery...woot!

Neat print portfolio

http://www.hilaryatthecircus.com/gallery/prints/

Screen Inspiration

http://www.vahallastudios.com/

http://www.aestheticapparatus.com/portfolio.php?subsection=identity&page=0

http://albertocerriteno.com/

http://andrewholder.net/

http://www.doublenaut.com/work/

http://www.sonnenzimmer.com/memory/

screen styled album cover art...pleasant surprise on Pandora

BFA Show: Screen

I have decided to do my BFA senior exhibition show using screen printing. I will design prints similar to "The Forbidden City" and "Rome" that you can find in previous posts. I discussed my plan with a couple of professors, including my advisor,  and fellow students.......and I'm jumping into it full swing. I have to produce probably 8 more (for a total of 10) prints for my show in the spring. I have prepared all the files and layers digitally from my original photographs. I will be working on the printing for the next few months. Fun times!

The show will combine my following passions: travel photography, graphic design, and printmaking. My focus and purpose is to embrace manual printing in an increasingly digital era. The process combines digital and manual work, but the end result is printed by hand......with a hand mixed color palette of paint. I have control over the entire process from traveling to the destinations, shooting the photographs, creating digital images from the photographs in Photoshop, mixing the paint, and printing/registering the individual layers. The serigraphs are art for the sake of art, and the images are simply beautiful to look at. I might sell them in the show, and I might not.

Here is a sneak peek at one that I'm working on that will be 7 colors (2 down, 5 to go:)

CMYK: Screen Printing

I recently tried printing CMYK by hand. It's not my favorite. It's very technical and does not produce quite what I desire. I am probably just not great at the printing yet, but the Key image seemed to flood, as the dots were so close together. I set the angles in Photoshop as advised for my screen mesh, but they still seemed to blend unfavorably.

After preparing the channels for CMYK in Photoshop I combined the layers into a separate file and experimented with printing order (using each layer {C, M, Y, and K} at about 80% opacity since I use Pantone colors/inks for halftone screening). I shifted the layers around until I got the image that I desired to print. The order I settled on was first Magenta, then Cyan, Yellow and lastly black for my Key. The commonly suggested printing order is, of course, light to dark YMCK. Perhaps straying from this model is why my results were unfavorable. I will have a higher quality image soon enough, but here are some images from the printing process: