The first of hopefully quite a few.

Of course this isn't an original poster or anything close but a full size poster advertising a city that's important to me for £4.95? Sold! From the London Transport Museum gift shop.

I'd like to start collecting some poster for myself after spending so many months looking at them through a screen, but not to go over board only posters showing a city or town that means something to me, somewhere that's familiar. The coastline of Devon and Cornwall it is then! I shall forever be on the hunt for a Dawlish Poster! 

Landmarks

With the 1940s posters the images in those posters are landmarks symbolising the city, with that in mind I've looked back through all the Dawlish footage I've got and realised that there are places I see on this journey, specifically on the railway route that are significant to me, and that when I look at these images each of them are a landmark of that point of the journey to me.

Red Rock Cafe

Dawlish Coast

Teignmouth

Along with the image of Dawlish amusements park from my last post I'm now thinking that these four images are going to be my next four prints. But they're not just more Dawlish photos, I'm not just cheating and still using the footage I took months ago because these stills are taken from the second Dawlish trip I took and fortunately it was a much brighter day when I took this video comparing to the very grey collection of images I've created from my first trip.

So I've enhanced these images, so only making more of what's already there, especially the blue sky, the Red in the Red Rock Cafe sign, the green of the grass under the Teignmouth sign, to mostly emphasize the difference between these images and the last. I've made these images more bright, more bold and because of this they are slightly more poster like, but still realistic.
So I think that these will make another collection of their own in a way because they are more bright, I'm using brighter ink now also so that'll enhance them along with using different acetate which creates a more bold colour.

Dawlish Amusement Park.

When I started this project I was looking at railway posters from the 1940s that advertised cities and towns around the UK. I sort of moved off this topic when I got going with my own prints but whenever I've looked back through my research the main bulk of it has been these posters and the artists that created them.

I've moved on from the idea of creating my own posters because that's not what my works about any more but while enhancing my images on photo shop by the simple click of the button 'posterize' it gathers the bulk colour together and creates the image that those posters had, and I really like this effect. 

Dawlish Amusements Posterized

It's interesting to contrast it to the original image because there's not that much difference, it's only the effect of having bulk colours instead of the shadows and shading. 

Dawlish Amusements

Yet because of these slight differences when I look at the posterized image I instantly see the 1940s posters and think that if I have time before the end of the year it could be fun to CMYK it and see if the colours are as clear when silk screen printed.

Stopping off at Dawlish

This is hopefully that first and last time I may appear to look like a train spotter. Once again it's not about the train (ish) as it's not about the type of train going past just the fact that I'm usually on the train going through this sight so really this video is sort of my work but in reverse.

I prefer getting photos from the videos I take rather than just taking a photo, because if I got out of the train to start photographing these sights then it becomes more about me being a photographer which I'm not, if anything I've become a printmaker now in art but only printing shots from a video.

So I don't intend to take any stills from this to then print, I just found it interesting seeing the sight of Dawlish in a different way, a different angle, and I couldn't help but to record it.

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