Barn Owl - art print process art thread - start to finish

[PedalPrinting]

Yesterday we layed the 6/7/8th layer on the variant, and 6/7th layer on the main editon. I forgot to snap photos for most of yesterday, sorry folks! Heres the progress from throughout the day once it was all complete. We layed down the yellow in the eyes/feet/beak on the variant edition, which were part of the split fountain in the main edition. Next was the brown in the owls body, a different shade for each edition. Brighter w/more orange in the main, and darker with more magenta in the variant. Following the brown was a 90% transparent warm grey. This layer adds all the shadows to each previous colors, ties the whole image together and adds a lot of depth to what was previously pretty flat and spread out. Some folks will lay a yellow, with a darker yellow, and then blue with a darker blue so on and so forth. Which gives you more control over your color. But I've always figured, if a shadow in real life is an overcasting of darkness why not just print a clear grey over all the layers at once? Seems more realistic to me...

Variant color:




Main edition:




Zoom on the stippling texture Anville added to the owls coat, this detail work really takes the coloring in the owl to the next level.

[Jacobv]

i love good prints right before the key goes down. great work

[Drozd]

looking lovely

[Iron Canvas Studios]

Dang!

[ryan_1969]

can't wait!!!! looks freakin sweet. love the colors.

[PedalPrinting]

Here are some shots of the second transparent warm grey which gives the town in the background some better definition.

[Andymac]

this is so good. i really want one of these, you guys do trades?

[PedalPrinting]

Andy, hit me up via email: isaac@nightowlsprint.com


The prints are finished, cut full bleed, signed and numbered. I promised Anville the final photo posting rights so keep an eye out for his reveal!

[PedalPrinting]

Prints will be released later this week at: Night Owls Poster Shop. Anville will be posting an update with a bunch of photos and the rest of the release info very soon. Heres a peak at the key lines:

[Anville]

Hola everyone,

we got a signed stack of these at the Night Owls shop, and will be on sale soon. I'd just like to thank everyone who was digging the thread, and hope to do another one soon. Documenting this stuff is exiting, and I hope someone can learn something or be inspired by it. Thanks for all of the comments as well, really appreciate it. This print would not look the way it does without Issac, its one thing to design it, and a whole different skillset to bring this 9 color silkscreen to life.


If youd like to buy one of these you can hop on the mailing list at Night Owls Poster Shop and you will be notified when they are up. If you get on mine, you will be notified of the drop, and Ill drop you a line and you will be redirected to NOPS as all of these will be sold through Night Owls.

Ok, so heres what the print looks like, then Im going to show a bunch of random shots of the printing etc.

18" x 24" - 9 color silkscreen (variant is 10) - 2 metallics with a split-fountain
Regular edition - run of 75
Midnight Variant - run of 35
Birch Plank - run of 6 (still in development - will post in here when there are updates)

Main stack o' prints after signing.




Midnight variant.


You can kind of see this in the pic, but when you look at the split in the background, there is this almost frosted and a somewhat luminescent look due to the paper (cotton rag), the depth looks incredible.






Random shots!



















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