Altering Fairytales

For my final Print assignment, we had to create colour prints based on the theme 'alter'. I had chosen fairytales and how they've been changed and watered down from their gruesome origins, and Disney-ified. These were some of my ideas. The Little Mermaid one hasn't had the bloody stuff added yet. The Snow White one was the only I got to print (and not well, sadly). I also had one planned for Cinderella too. I have the sketches still so I'm gonna work on that series over the summer. Here's what's done so far anyhow.

That was more ramble-y than I'd planned on...

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Sin City Prints

I posted here aaaages ago about these prints, while I was actually making them. Well, my portfolio was just sitting there and I had a few minutes of free time - which actually shouldn't be free at all - so *snappy snappy* here's the photos at last.
The print was based on a drawing from a Sin City screencap of Nancy and Hartigan. I still like these enough not to be bitter about having stabbed myself while cutting the lino....

Edward Scissorhands

Prints are just too darn fun to do. They take some time, effort and work to make but once they're done you can reproduce the image over and over again and experiment with colour and design. So, yeah, they've become a bit of an addiction of late. After the Birdeatsbaby ones I did earlier this week, I got some other ideas.

Today I made the blocks for Edward Scissorhands, based on the iconic movie image. I tend to prefer the prints that I do in white, as opposed to the blocks that represent the darker shades. Especially in this one, poor Ed's nose is a bit off in the blue pictures.

This one was a bit more difficult. It was bigger than the BEB portraits but between the hair and the blades, oy! I got there though. And I do really love those envelopes! Prints seem to look good on them.

I explained my process in the last post, so I'll just post the photos.

Birdeatsbaby Prints

First off, Birdeatsbaby are just awesome. I won't get into any explanations here because I've got a fair few photos to post, so I'll direct you to a BEB review and interview I did on Pop Culture Monster, and there's linkies at the bottom.

Okay, so it all originated with this photo of the band-

- and from that came many, many prints. (I may have actually made more prints than I did for my whole Print module in college. In one day. Erm, oops?..) This little project seen me covered in paint and my bed lost beneath, well, this...

When possible, I tend to take lots of photos of projects while I'm working on them. Partly because it's interesting to see the process, partly in case something goes wrong after hours of work!!

I started off by sketching their faces for the block's template (you can click to enlarge photos).

Then I got to cutting and sticking!







Et viola!

The first ones I did were with the negative blocks since they were, for the most part, just one section so if it fell apart (like the ones I did in college) it was no biggie. I used some different coloured paper, envelopes and these pretty little cards I completely forgot I bought!











Then the more finicky blocks - which are still holding up!






Then all together!! Plus the third set of blocks I made to include some colour, just to be extra awkward. The registration's off but I still like them. I'll eventually get them to line up properly...ish.




I even printed onto a notebook and a waistcoat that's been on my 'customise or throw out' pile for months!

There will be many more prints to come. I have plans of doing some of Frank'N'Furter, Tank Girl and Noomi Rapace, to name a few.

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Fresh Prints!

The titles are just getting shameful now. I apologise, but it was inevitable. These are some of the prints I've done with a few different techniques. Actually, it's more so the print plates, since my prints are in college, but there is one nifty print I got a photo of.