Development plan for Screens

So recently I've been trying to gather my thoughts and work towards some experimental and finished pieces. Over the last few weeks I have been collecting newspaper front pages and magazine covers. By collecting these documents I am gathering used and unwanted objects that for one day were of great significance.

I have just done two black and white drawings of the collage I created which I think have come out looking really interesting. I used charcoal, ink and pencil to create these pieces.

Jasper Johns, (layering with numbers)

Plan:
I want to continue to work with the screen-printing process. Over the next few weeks, I will be printing a screen every two days or so with the cover of a newspaper. I will do two pieces of work each time. One will be a piece with layered prints, I will print the newspapers from each day on top of each other until they create a complete piece and one will be the single cover print. I think it will be very interesting to watch the pieces develop. As I go along with this process I will document my work with photographs.
During this process I will experiment with colours, I will be using a monochrome colour scheme for some of the works and a bright and bold colour scheme for other pieces. I want to use bold attention grabbing colour for some of the work to see how the different articles will come through in the whole piece.


Jasper Johns, (American flag series)

At the moment I am looking at the artist Jasper Johns, Jasper works with layering and series. I am really interested in the way in which he develops his work and how his pieces transform. A lot of his pieces have autobiographical references. For example his work with the American flag. He uses a variety of colours and techniques to create his pieces. Johns' uses 'Things the mind already knows' as inspiration for some of his famous pieces of art. He uses what is around us and what people would recognise to create pieces and then edits and changes them in to interesting pieces.