Watchful

Watchful

On the edge of the herd, looking outward… just Watchful

This was my first screenprint, made at Fife (Dunfermline) Printmakers’ Workshop. This image, with the mood it represents, continues to mean a lot to me.

I did not seek to show a known species, but rather to portray a representative ceratopsian type of dinosaur.

I had it scanned into digital form by this local company, who were very helpful to me as a beginner.. giving excellent service and value for money.

Some more background, if you wish:
The intent toward such an image was in my mind for some time, then (in the Print Workshop itself) occurred ‘that special moment’ to sketch it into reality.. a tiny ballpoint-pen sketch, a few inches long, capturing my idea. It was a process then of enlargement and further detailing, and – learning the steps of screenprinting – of preparing a screen to overlay successive colours in selected areas. There were decisions to be made all along the way. I chose to reverse the image relative to my initial sketch: it just felt better facing to the right.

Watchful belongs to the following groups:

Creative, Talented, and Unknown, First Things and Printmakers and Printmaking Available for sale as

Greeting Cards, Matted Prints, Laminated Prints, Mounted Prints, Canvas Prints and Framed Prints