GOLD WINNER: FLOWER GIRL
HARWOOD KING PRINTMAKERS
Silkscreen using 35 colours from a painting by Lizzie Richards. The use of multiple colours was used to create a painted texture to the final
image.Creating the separations for the print required us the think about where the texture would be created. A set of cmyk screen printed colours was used as a starting point but then individual colours were separated and printed using artist pigments to closely match that of the original. Flatbed Digital Varnish with a little black was added at the end of production to help add a varnish texture to some areas.
COUNTRY: UNITED KINGDOM
PRINTING TYPE: MIXED (COMBINATION OF PRINTING TECHNIQUES)
TECHNIQUE: RANDOM DOT SILKSCREEN SEPARATIONS PRINTED ON CANON SEPARATION SOFTWARE USED WAS ICISS HUE SEPARATION. PRINTED ONTO 400GSM SOMERSET SATIN PAPER. SCREENS 16 NEWTONS 90, 120, 140 MESH COUNTS. CANON OCE FLATBED PRINTER USED TO ADD VARNISH TEXTURE IN BACKGROUND AREAS THIS CAN BE SEEN AS A STIPPLED EFFECT
EQUIPMENT: KIPPAX SEMI AUTOMATIC AND MANUAL PRESS
PRINT VOLUME: 105 PRINTS, 125 PRINT RUN
TIME FRAME: 3 - 4 WEEKS PRINTING TIME OVER A 3 MONTH PERIOD
SILVER WINNER: "WARZAWA WSCHODNIA" BY SEBAS VELASCO
CHRISTIAN M. WALTER - TALLER DE SERIGRAFIA
“Warzawa Wschodnia” by Sebas Velasco In summer 2016 Sebas Velasco realized a mural painting for the project “Street Art Doping Warzaw” (Fundacja Do Dzieła ). For the print we took a picture of the polish photographer Maciej Krüger. The aim of this print is to somehow perpetuate an outstanding work of Urban Art , the original of which will disappear in a few years.
COUNTRY: SPAIN
PRINTING TYPE: SCREEN
TECHNIQUE & EQUIPMENT: SCREEN PRINT ON 2MM CARD BOARD A PHOTOGRAPH FROM MACIEJ
EQUIPMENT: PHOTOSHOP ILLUSTRATOR KRÜGER OF VELASCO'S ARTWORK IN WARSAW WAS TAKEN, AND MANIPULATED WITH PHOTOSHOP. FIRST IT WAS RESIZED TO THE FORMAT OF THE PRINT AND THEN DIVIDED IN LAYERS REPRESENTING THE DOMINANT COLOURS AND COLOUR SHADES OF THE ORIGINAL (THE SURROUNDING CITYSCAPE HAS BEEN BUILT UP WITH THE SAME COOLOURS). THESE LAYERS WERE CONVERTED IN HALFTONES OF 420 DPI. CLICHÉS WERE PRINTED OUT WITH AN EPSON STYLUS PRO 7450 PRINTER ON STARPRINT POLYESTER INK JET FILM AND THEN COPIED TO THE SCREENS, THESE STRETCHED WITH A SEFAR PET1500 120-34 AND SEFAR PET1500 100-55 MESH. PRINTING WAS DONE ON A HAND PRINTING TABLE SIRI-DRUCKTISCH OF BOCHONOW MASHINENBAU. 14 TRANSPARENT AND TRANSLUCENT LAYERS WERE PRINTED ON CRESCENT CARDBOARD OF 2MM. NON-TOXIC AND BIO-DEGRADABLE INKS WERE USED FOR PRINTING, MADE OF LASCAUX SCREEN PRINTING PAST AND LASCAUX STUDIO ARTIST ACRYLIC COLOURS AND MEDIUMS.
PRINT VOLUME: 60 COPIES, PLUS ARTIST'S AND PRINTER'S PROOFS
TIME FRAME: 1 MONTH/1 WORKER FOR PREPARATION, PRE-PRESS, PROOF PRINTING, CORRECTIONS AND PRINTING
BRONZE WINNER: LOS PRINTORES
CHRISTIAN M. WALTER - TALLER DE SERIGRAFIA
Screen print lit by hand by the designer, on 425 g Saunder´s Waterford paper. 5 inks, white background printed with oil-based inks and a 60-thread screen, 4 tones of transparent greys printed with 165-thread screens.
COUNTRY: SPAIN
PRINTING TYPE: SCREEN
TECHNIQUE: SOBRE PAPEL SAUNDER'S WATERFORD DE 425 GR. 5 ON SAUNDER'S WATERFORD PAPER, 425 G. 5 INKS, WHITE BACKGROUND PRINTED WITH OIL BASED INKS AND A 60-THREAD SCREEN, 4 TONES OF TRANSPARENT GREYS PRINTED WITH 165-THREAD SCREEN. THE CHALLENGE FOR THIS PRINT WAS SCREEN PRINTING A PENCIL DRAWING AND DEPICTING EVEN THE SMALLEST DETAILS. THE TOUCHES OF COLOUR WERE ADDED BY HAND FOR OBVIOUS REASONS.
EQUIPMENT: 5 INKS: EXTRA-OPAQUE WHITE BACKGROUND AND 4 TONES OF TRANSPARENT BLACK, 61 AND 165 THREAD SCREENS. WATER BASED ACRYLIC INKS.
PRINT VOLUME: 90 COPIES
TIME FRAME: 30 DAYS