Bird Silkscreen Prints Series Part 2 by Andrea Lauren

This post follows part one in the Bird Silkscreen Prints series.   Here's a look at the Crane, Peacock, and Toucans.  Each of these prints has five colors and were screen printed by me in my studio; they are all in an edition of 25.

Bird Silkscreen Prints Series Part 1 by Andrea Lauren

The bird block stamps I've recently completed have formed the basis of a series of silkscreen prints.  I've used a variety of elements to tie the series together in 4-6 color prints.  Here's a look at the Flamingo, Pelican and Swan prints.

 

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: 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: Reductive SilkScreen Print: Tiger

Continuing with these reduction screenprint trials, here's my tiger design.  I did a print run of 15 prints for each of these just to confirm I could repeat the process.

 

 

Andrea Lauren: Reductive Silkscreen Print: Lion

I've been experimenting with reduction silkscreen prints this past month.  The technique is very artistic and free; there seem to be a lot of possibilities since everything is done by hand and able to be adjusted and changed during the making of a print.  I chose some safari animals as my test.  Each of these have five colors which are unified through the series.

Andrea Lauren Process 2/12

Pictures from around my studio in the beginning of February.  It has been fun to be finished with the busy holiday / restocking season and get back to work creating original pieces.  There have been many new linocuts, some large paintings, and I just started working on some reduction screen printing; it has all been highly rewarding.  Here are some photos.