Workshop 3 22/10/15

For our 3rd workshop we were set the task of a one day brief to complete a competition piece of work. We were given the choice of a number of different competitions but I chose to try something that I hadn't done before and this was to do a Risograph piece of work.
We had two colours to use, pink and yellow and the two colours could be mixed to make an orange.
The theme we had to use was 'In the Sky'.
After sketching down a few ideas I decided to focus on kites.

I liked the idea of different shaped kites all in the sky together.

I simplified the shapes and created some pattern work within the kites. This made the kites more interesting and gave me more area to use the colours and mix them together in more of an intricate way.  I then used colouring pencils to give an idea of how the colours will look when printed.

This is a very rough idea of the colours and on the Risograph they will be a lot clearer and sharper.

After this stage and getting the ok to go ahead from my tutors, I then used a black ink pen to trace the shapes of each of the layers (pink and yellow) and used a black colouring pencil to create a textured background which would be in orange.

This layer will be coloured Yellow.

This layer will be coloured pink and the areas that are black on both layers will be orange.

I submitted my piece of work into the risograph competition 'Unseen' and my design was accepted into the book!
This is what the final design looks like:

I like how my design turned out once printed. The layers fit well together and the textured background is really effective as it gives the print a dreamy impression. I like the detail on the kites and how each part fits together. I was hoping for the colours to be a bit brighter and sharper, I think this may not have worked how I wanted it to because I drew the designs onto tracing paper. Although the colours aren't as bright as I was hoping, I still like this piece of work and I think the faintness of the colours gives the design an airy, light impression which goes well with the 'In the Sky' theme.