Coast

Red Rock Cafe

Back the the Postcards

I'm currently going back to an original idea of postcards. Postcards symbolising the landmarks of my journey between Exeter St Davids and Teignmouth. They're my own landmarks not perfect photos of iconic scenes from the towns but stills form my videos that I would recognise anywhere.

Amusements

Fails of Prints

So I seem to have been on a roll lately with failing when it comes to silkscreen printing. I've either been using too strong ink or there's been something wrong with the acetate, who knows! But I'm taking 2 unsuccessful weeks as a sign to not print bigger and stick to what I no and stay smaller.

The annoying thing is that I have the next 4 images to print for a reason. The idea of printing the 'Landmarks' of this journey, making a link to the Railway Posters that started this project for me. Showing progression of my skills a s a printer also, I'm going to keep on printing of course but just may have to think up a new tack to keep the images interesting.

Take one

Take two

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.