Persons of Note- Print research

Because I am going to screen print my final outcomes, I wanted to see how other practitioners used print to portray abstract looking imagery.


Eloise Renouf

I really love Renouf's print work, as I find the simple, clumsy lines mix well with the strong blocks of colour on the background. I also really like the use of digital work with hand rendered, and how these ordered lines contradict themselves to the blocks of colour.

- Simple colours work well- think this will translate well in my work too

- Background of colour and line all black mirrors what I intend to do in my pieces, and I think this works in bringing the attention to the line and their path

- Variants of thickness of line work well, and this is something I have used across all of my designs, so I am glad this will work well, but I could have pushed it more in mine within the single pieces

- Could I have tried using looser lines against the crisp ones?

Marcus Walters

Really love Walters use of cut paper and overlapping shapes- I hadn't thought about how this would translate to screen print, as I think this would have been an interesting avenue to explore, especially with the facts about Turing's clumsy nature.

- Like the white gaps, feel these are reflected in my work too, I also like the use of gridded lines as a nod to graph paper, which again is something I wish I could have explored more

- Like how the colours are toned down variants on CMYK, I might explore my colour ways before I print tomorrow

Lucienne Day (1953)

I absolutely love this work created in 1953 by Day, as I think it gives a real feel of the 50's whilst maintaining a timeless feel. 

- Think the lines and negative space with limited colours are very reminiscent of my designs, which I am really pleased about, as I want to evoke a 40's/50's look in my prints, as this was when Turing's work mainly took place

- Love the cross sections and overlapping lines again are similar to what I have created, and I like how they seem to show a circuit board and its connections.

- Wish I had thought about adding a third colour to my prints, as it might have made them more interesting and dynamic, but it is too late now to redesign them