Jelly vision: castle performance piece studio work and development
I used one of my photos and created a test screen, puting a bitmap on the black level of the 2 screen print.
It came out great 3D wise and the red florists film is definitely the correct choice. But the white highlights are too stark and clearly also need the levels adjusting and possibly also softening with a bitmap. And I think that the "white layer" could be printed in an off white pink. And likewise, the "black layer" in a deep burgundy. I'll test this.
I've sourced some large pieces of acetate to sandwich the jelly print in like so.
When I cut out around the shape of the print, it create the illusion of a glossy red jelly suspended mid air like so.
This is the main art part for my performance for the castle in June. Looking forward to clowning around 🤡
After playing around with this test piece I realized that the density of the print on the darker level was obscuring visibility, which is a fundamental requirement of the piece.
After I scaled up the jelly to fit the larger screen, I messed about with the levels a bit more on Adobe Photoshop, applied a bitmap and also made the image more transparent.
I printed out a cropped section of 3 different options for all 3 of these effects.
This is the result that I prefer the most and so I went with this option for the darker level.
Messed about with the levels for the lighter layer at the final size, applying a bitmap similarly.
And then inverted it ready for the screen.
Got both layers printed on acetate and then banged them both on a screen ready to print.
