WEEK 6

Being aware of how little time is left on the project, this week I have been very focused on getting the zines done. I began with the cover design which I based on the cover I tried last week on the black riso with babies hanging from roots. I chose this as it represents my project in a very summarised way; the shape and how we all have them. On the rootless cover, I also made a few babies fall to show the disconnect from roots. I decided to have contrasting colours on both zines; roots being done in green and pink, rootless in blue and orange. I printed the first layers on Tuesday (blue and green) and the second ones on Friday.
I spent the whole of Wednesday and Thursday working on the first 8 pages of both zines. I used a lot of the prints I have made over the past 6 weeks, I drew a bunch and also took photographs to edit into a story about rootlessness.
On Friday I printed the first A3 colour layers (8 pages) for both zines. Over the weekend I will be making the second colour layers as well as finish the first colour layer of the second side.

I made this drawing based on a sculpture and originally thought of having it orange - blue but after looking at it long enough, I ended up liking the blue-only a lot better.

Playing around with bitmapping

Intaglio

ORANGE LAYER for Rootless

Photo editing

Photo editing

Exploring layers of repeated pattern in green and pink

drawing for a mini story

Ink spread painting on the background and ink spread typography will be on the top layer (Green)

Root babies

The backgrounds for both of the covers are different monoprint trials I've done over the weeks.