printing – Page 3 – Daisy Hirst

Some monsters are late

Three and a half days until my MA deadline and the monsters are still coming. Witney from Monster Colours is a…
and these ones from Monster Food are trouble:

Evie from Monster Clothes is in progress, and I guess she should probably be my last print before the Photoshopping and scalpelling and making of dummy books. Today’s most debilitating dilemma was: which of the three on the left is Evie?
I chose the leftmost one eventually, with assistance – but this is really no time for arriving threefold.

Blood, sweat, giraffes, Christmouse

I thought this project might kill me AND never get done, but here it sort-of is, a handprinted book about giraffes. It’s not how it was meant to be at all (apart from the cover) as I have never done this sort of screen-printing before, drawing onto drafting film to make the positive for the light blue layer, and it kept being under- or over-exposed so it’s all patchy and weird. But, it is some giraffes on some paper and that is something to hand in for my MA, maybe I will have another go after my deadline.

Ooh, in other news, LOAf is now available from Etsy, and is in the window of Foyles, where also our MA show will be from the 4th to the 9th of February. Also, HAPPY CHRISTMOUSE!

Monstrous!

Hello, I have not been here for ages, but I have kept on printing monsters of diverse colours, shapes and persuasions. They are all over the shop now, these ones can fly:
I think they might be related to the pet thing in Shaun Tan’s The Arrival, but be having a Quentin-Blakeish kind of a day (especially the middle one).

¿Dónde viven los monstruos?

Why is that the Spanish title of Where the wild things are? Aren’t there wild things there? Anyway, I recently printed some monstruos.

Ten-colour print

This is the most complicated print I’ve ever made, it took ten screens and I think it might still need another cat. This is the Runaway Baby’s village, which has chimneys from the Alpujarras.