03/12

I managed to print on reflective card!! It worked really well, the images were very clear and detail as well as the colours being reflective...it worked perfectly! :) I cannot wait to try this on a larger scale, it will really look interesting and bizarre. I am thinking of perhaps writing things into the card before printing onto it and seeing how that looks. The levels of image and writing will create a sense of depth - as if you can look through the image into something else entirely - I will need to experiment more with layers and deciding which looks best. There is the fear of creating too many layers and distorting the orginal images so it will just be trial-and-error for now.


Unfortuantely, so far the reflective card printing has not dried yet and smears every time it is touched...hopefully it will dry but if not then I either cover the image in smoothed-out cling film or encase it in a picture frame or just put glass over it. The effect is really good and dazzling to look at so I would hate for it not to be used - I'm sure there is a solution somewhere!

Also I went to gosta to sort out large scale printing and was told that if I could provide the materials I wanted to print onto then they could do it :) I said I wanted to use tracing paper but also other forms of see-through/semi see-through materials. The IT guy suggested I check out materials such as screens that are used at bus stops...the possibilities are endless! I will look at different materials I can order online - some materials I can obtain locally so I can try them out then before using them on larger scales. I am really pleased with today, the information is very useful and makes me feel a little more at ease. At the moment I am working on layering images and combining them with hand-written prose. I want to develop the sense of layering and levels of the mind - fragments. I am doing all these on reflective and see-through surfaces, e.g. plastic sheets and small mirrors etc. I plan to work on small paintings perhaps this week to layer photography over the top of - I am using layers of photography at the moment printed onto tracing paper. My larger paintings will be useful when printing large see-through screens/sheets which can be attached to these expressive pieces. I feel better than before about my work.