codatrace

so now we have made our design for our repeat print and filled in all the background areas it actually looks alright. we've done it so quickly i cant really believe it but working in a group definitely helps you work faster and especially my group, they are both such hard workers and its like normally i would just be like 'oh ill do it later or next week or something' but they;re so driven its like, 'no we'll come in tomorrow and stay all day' and i'm actually really happy about that. even if i didn't learn anything from doing the printing or setting up our design i feel like i have learnt a lot from them about like a good work ethic and actually what is expected from you and needed from you to get a good grade.

so now we have done our design on paper we need to put it on this stuff called cod trace. its like see through like assotate and what we put on this will get put onto our screens and then printed onto our silk. normally in past years the project has been done and its only done in black and white so theres only one codatrace but this year they have changed it so we do two colours. the days involved a lot of communication between us all, about what parts should be what colours because we want it to be balanced so there isn't too much of one colour and so its mixed so it doesn't look to heavy on one end. it took a while but we did get it done. we used china pencils, pigment ink pens and this stuff called photo opaque which is painted on and its a brown colour. my favourite thing to use was the china pencils because they have a quality sort of like a texture more like a crayon rather than a pen which is really flat, but i'm not sure if when we print it it will look as nice. we used a range of marks to make it more interesting like we drew a mixture of thick lines and thin lines, and had huge blocks and in some areas we scratched into the photo opaque with some scissors. we then had to check it on the light box to make sure the coloured areas were opaque cos otherwise it wouldn't transfer to our screen and wouldn't print, we did have to do a few areas again. i am excited to get this printed because until we have chosen our colours and printed it we cant imagine what it is going to be like properly.

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