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: 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: 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.

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 3/12

This month is flying by and I am getting lots of quality hours in my studio with various processes.  I like to have lots of different projects on my plate to keep me on my toes.

 

1. Reductive Silk Screen print in my Animals series.  These are 5 color silkscreen prints.
2.  New designs in my Spoonflower shop. Making a quilt with my swatches.
3.  Pineapple screenprint in three colors.  Mixing up some mint ink.
4.  Printing my Bear's Bourree lino.  Prints drying.