GEORGE SFOUGARAS ARTWORKS

Choosing the right image for a screen print is HIGHLY subjective. It took four hours and three different programmes to do this, from original work. I used Photoshop elements, painter elements and 'Sketch it'. Nothing is really possible without some hard graft, and sadly ( for me at least) short-cuts, simply do not yield the outcomes I want.... Finally, I think I managed to get what I want, the final outcomes can be seen in the first picture of the somewhat extensive collection of possibilities..

MASS, TIME, SPACE. I had this idea, that images on top of a highly textural surface would behave different visually. I was obsessed with this thought for a while and it was ...kind of an intrusive thought. I had to try this out. A simple image of a large head (it had to be large, because of the problems that the texture/cubes would create).  As usual, I underestimated the problems that painting a very precise image on a surface with a few dozen obstacles in the way. Drawing and getting the proportions right, was incredibly hard. Every time I drew a line, there was dice or a cube in front of it, making fluidity of drawing impossible...as for the painting part...well I had to fudge it. Each of the visible cubes has six sides,  Five of those sides are visible and NEED some kind of surface painting that does not detract...in fact harmonises with the rest.  I in for a frustrating experience. Each side had to have some kind of meaningful shade, tone, mark on it, so tha...