Andrea Lauren: Safari Silkscreen Print: Zebras

My second safari silkscreen print featuring my zebra stamp.   Loved this in the one color, but very happy with how the two color print turned out.




Andrea Lauren: Safari Silkscreen Print: Tigers

After carving the safari animal blocks, I thought there could be more opportunities to feature the designs in prints.  Screen printing this design was the best option and I chose black paper made by French Paper Co.  This tiger is printed in three colors.  







Andrea Lauren: Fabric Collection: Safari

My latest collection of Safari prints are created from my two and three color block print stamps.  The collection is available in three colorways in my Spoonflower shop.




Andrea Lauren: Two and Three Color Block Print Stamps: Safari

I have been dreaming up a new collection of pattern prints and have decided to hand-carve all of the elements from blocks.  I chose to do a Cheetah, Lion, Zebra and Tiger for the Safari Collection.  It has been a lot of fun to create these all by hand and get away from the computer and practice my carving skills all at the same time.




Andrea Lauren: Reductive Linocut Print: Cat in the Window

The third cat print of this series.  I really enjoyed sketching this one out and adding in some floral elements which I do not often include in my work.  I'm really pleased with how this particular print balanced the two colors.  It is my favorite of the lot so far.







Andrea Lauren: Reductive Silkscreen Print: Cheetah

Wrapping up this series of reductive silkscreen prints with this print of the Cheetah with his five colors separated.  You can see the whole series in the second photo below.  I enjoyed the challenge of creating the prints in a coordinating fashion and found that the process of drawing directly on the screen created some nuances that couldn't be achieved with a photo-emulsion method.  I hope to use this process more in the future.

Andrea Lauren: Two-Color Reduction Linocut: Cat on the Roof

Here's the second reduction linocut print in my cat series.  I'm thinking this is a vacation perspective.  Step-by-step: 1)  Sketch and idea for color separation.  2) Carving away the areas that will remain the paper color.  3) A look at the first color printed and the block for the second color ready to go through the press.  4&5)  Pulling the prints and letting them dry.

Andrea Lauren: Reductive SilkScreen Print: Rhino

The third in this series of six reduction screen prints.  This first photo shows the very last color before printing.  It is basically just an outline at this stage and everything in the screen has been filled in with the stop-out medium.   You can see the first four colors in the second photo and the ink really builds up on the paper.