Process notes from Ellen:
Keeping the screens' fine details & halftones printing evenly and clean between pulls was difficult and my edition suffered because of it. However, I was happy with my color mixing and many of the final prints
Process notes from Ellen:
I was really happy with my registration & color mixing on this one. I knew the inks were already too saturated so I opted to skip the Key layer because CMY let the full range of hue through without any potential muddying of a black layer (I noticed this last semester with a sunset print.
Process notes from Ellen:
I've done about 1 self-portrait print per year and several sketches of other sorts, it's become an important part of my exploration of self-imaging. It felt like the right time to finally do one smiling. I didn't want to over carve the block, but still establish a good black/white/hatching separation on the block.