DAMON ROBERTS PRINTMAKING ARCHIVE # ONE
By Damon Roberts
↓ Damon Roberts - x- Glass Siren Studio. Stamping and signing another print edition..
↓ Glass Siren Studio - The Silkscreen Printing Press i built to help me make the prints.
↓ Production shot from the Smoke Spheres Metalic (Duo-Tone) Silkscreen Edition. The ink is dragged over the screen and the pressue forces the ink through the mesh in order to create the individuals layers of the prints.
↓ Teal version of the Smoke Spheres Metalic (Duo-Tone) Silkscreen Prints.
↓ Spent screen ready for clean up from the Smoke Spheres series.
↓ Framed examples of the Test Tones and Smoke Spheres prints.
↓ The Metalic Duo-Tone silkscreen print process i've been experimenting with can produce a high definition photographic quality images that have a semi reflective finish which looks incredible under direct lighting conditions.
↓ Gold metalic base layer print with a tighter foreground highlights overprinted in cream acrylics combine to create a print outcome that really jumps of the sheet.
↓ The following series of photographs aims to give a little insight into how i use the CMYK print process to create some of my full colour abstract work.
↓ The process begins by producing four separate films and screens in order to be able print the separate cyan, magenta, yellow and black inks.
↓ Here you can see the first cyan layer of this abstract edition which has been printed on a cream acrylic ink background flood with a white underbase.
↓ Once the magenta layer is overprinted on the cyan base the image begins to develop and the solid areas of composition begin to take on a more lustrous glossy look.
↓ Once the process yellow layer is blended with the cyan and magenta inks the raw background colours of the final edition begin to appear.
↓ The black layer is then overprinted which increases the contrast of the print and the colour depth.
↓ A selection of solid spot colours are then hand applied to selected areas of the print. This really boosts all the overall definition of the final image and gives the prints a real three dimentional textural feel with heavy ink application.
↓ The following pieces are large format 30x 30 inch linear abstracts with ultra fine detail that i created using a spinning print platten that i made for the printing press.
↓ Harmonograph patterns often feature on bank notes as a security measure as they are difficult to reproduce. I used these patterns as the basis for these productions.
↓ Two variations in this series were produced. Positive and negtive versions. Both used dilute metalics inks to create a print that looked like to was created with graphite pencil.
↓ These were quite a nerve wracking production to work on due to the levels of detail and complexity of the print process involved!
↓ Both positive and negative versions are now sold out.
↓ Decayed spot colour silkscreen variant. Acrylic and acid erosion process.
Films from the Flow 23 print edition on the studio's light box. The films are used create high definition stencils that ink can be pushed through in order to make the prints.
↓ The finished Flow 23 abstract prints feature a combination of metal compound inks and traditional acrylics. The Duo-Tone process.
↓ One of the component screens used to create the Flow 23 edition.
A sample of the finished prints housed in a cream 3d bevel mount before framing for a clean modern gallery style finish. If you require framing advice feel free to contact me via the following link - > Contact Studio
↓ A selection of films from the Orbs CMYK series of prints.
↓ Limited Edition Blue version of the Orbs CMYK process print in white bevel mount.
↓ Various component films from the spot colour Altered States edition.
↓ The first four base colour layers added.
↓ One of the ink'd up foreground screens from this release.
↓ The finished Altered States linear abstract edition featured ten layers of hand appplied inks.
↓ A Selection of Pop Art pieces that i've produce over the years. I tend to create this kind of work every now and again to give my brain a break from the all abstract themed work.
↓ Transmissions - Silkscreen production with hand appllied watercolour background. Every one of these from this mini edition were completely unique.
↓ Transmissions Master Edition - Gold version with stereo offset flouro underprint.
↓ Halftone Resistance - Yellow and Red version.
↓ Billionaires Live Matter. Gold Version. To check availability please > Contact Studio.
↓ H.O.U.S.E. - Limited Edition Silkscreen Print. Sold Out.
↓ This Is Acid. 30 x 30 inch. Heavy textural acrylics on canvas. Sold Out.
↓ Production shot from the This is Acid series.
This is Acid... Silkscreen Print Edition on paper. Sold Out.
T.H.E. G.R.E.A.T. R.E.S.E.T. Heavy duty black ink with juxtaposed flouro orange + yellow underprint for maximum impact. Check availability please > Contact Studio.
↓ This edition was run through the printing press time and time again when the black layer was being applied in to create a seriously heaavy duty embossed effect. These are very tactile prints.
↓ Roots Reggae Sound System themed work. Unique one off - large format freehand silkscreen print techniques on acrylic coated canvas.
↓ During production some layers were rag rollered and sandpapered to create a more distressed outcome.
↓ This is part of an extensive body of Reggae Sound System themed work that i've over the years. More examples available to view in my other archive posts.
Offset juxtaposed halftones were utilised in this piece. Think sound vibrations!
↓ Back in abstract mode. Detail from the Synchronicity Silkscreen series. Multi-layer sound themed abstracts.
↓ A version of my Synchronicity pieces - Title : Jah Synchro. Featured on the cover of Tape Op magazine.
↓ Some of the preliminary image work that i produced for the album cover ideas phase.
↓ Film positives from the metalic test tones print series.
↓ Juxtaposed halftone elements on solid spot colour typography.
↓ Title : Tubby's Reprise. Freehand silkscreen edition. This edition has sold out.
↓ More SubDub flyer artwork from my archive.
↓ Finished Cromalith Print Edition [Cerise Version]
↓ The final versions have incredible colour depth which contrasts nicely with the foreground flashes of metalic gold ink
↓ Red Haze Version with metalic gold spot colour elements.
↓ Construct A - Brutalist themed Architectural Abstraction Prints. Ltd Edition Orange Version.
↓ Another unique artist proof. These tend to emerge as a biproduct of the print process where i feed proofs from other releases through the press in order to test ink coverage and colour levels.
↓ (LeftBank) Linear Abstract. Solid spot colour print process.
↓ Unique artist proof from the 'Rachmads Tones' series in pastels and flourescent inks.
↓ 'Burning Bass Bins' composition. Several speaker cones which were doused in lighter fluid before they were set of fire and photographed for this composition.
↓ SubDub flyer art.
↓ Working out the opacity percentages of Metal Inks for the Aux Medusa Linear Abstract Edition.
↓ This is most complicated production i've created so far. 30 layers of hand applied inks went into this one. The seed of the idea for this was inspired by the Lloyds building in London where the mechanics of the building are visible on the outside and not hidden away.
↓ Another batch of prints ready to go out to their new homes....
↓ A limited edition version of the Mandala release featuring metalics and CMYK process printing.
↓ Some more commission work from Dreadzone who i have produced a number of album covers for over the last few years.
↓ My Radius Sillkscreen edition featured on the cover of the Dreadzone - Rare mixes allbum cover.
↓ Weighing out the inks to get the the correct ink opacity levels for the highlights on the Radius edition..
↓ The final version of the Radius edtion consists of ten layers of hand applied inks.
↓ The Morning Factory. Geometric Bauhaus inspired geometric abstraction.
↓ Each print in this edition was was mechanically numbered. 
↓ Detra Blax Abstract Composition.
↓ The Orbs prints were one of my first experiments using the full colour CMYK print process. The process is capable of creating an effect similar to old super8 video stills.
