Final culminating "Future"

For my final project in art class I have chosen to use the theme "Future". Doing so I am going treen printing meaningfull pictures on a T-shirt as if they were tattoo's. The reason why the theme "Future" is relevant to my plan I had with those s because the images I am going to put onto I was to change his shirt are going to be images that I will be getting one day in the "didn't come out to e". So really the shirt is going to resemble my body and the images will resemble tCelticwork of tattoo's. Some of the images I am going to have on the shirt will be a lion which is a symbol of God and I will place it over my heart so then he will always be close to me, a anchor and boat wheel on the back of my shoulders that will say "sailors life" because I am a sailor and I always will be, a maple leaf on the right side of my chest so then one day if I become very rich and move somewhere else in the world I will still never forget where I came from because the maple leaf is on Canada's national flag and a national figure for Canada, I will have 2 nautical starts on the back of my arms because the nautical stars help you find your way back home from somewhere else and I always want to remember that I can always find my way back to where I truly am from, and finally I will have an inspirational quote on my stomach of the T-shirt that will say "live life to its fullest" because I always make sure I am having fun so then there is never a dull moment in life so really the quote reminds me to never forget that. To do this art project I am going to need to do screen printings on the shirt but before I do that I will do some test trials on cotton fabrics to get good outcomes. I have asked online what are good things to know while doing screen printings and someone said always make sure everything is taped down properly so then you won't have any paint bleeding spots, as well to iron the images when everything is down so then they will stay on. I will be starting this project very soon and hope I won't run into any problems but I still need to do some research before I do so.

I have officially started my final project of the theme of "future" i have drawn several pictures  

That i will be cutting out parts of so then the paints will be able to seep through to make the designs. I did draw two pictures and then tried to screen print them onto an old shirt that was used for testers, the problem that i had with those printings were that they ddidn't come out properly because there was to much of the drawing cut out and it made look like one big blob of paint in a general region. Those two drawings were a compass and a celtic love knot, iI was going to add them in the T-shirt but I have decided to just stay with my original plan, the rest of the prints on the tester shirt came out good so now I am going to do my final shirt, I think it is going to come out well.

Now that all of my screen printing tests have been done i have found some things that i need to be carful about like cutting out to much paper from the print, and not pressing hard enough when squeegying the pring onto the shirt that i am going to start my good T-shirt and see what i can get done.

So far the screen prints on my good shirt have been coming out, they have been coming out clear and visible with hardly any paint bleeding or smudges. I did notice while screenprinting if you slowly take the images off from the screen from the shirt that they willcome out clearer than trying to take it off fast because if you take it off fast the shirt may move and smudge the paint on the shirt. Where it says "sailors life" on the shirt is a little small and hard to read from far away bit when close you can read what it says. I should have the rest of the shirt done very soon and i will take pictures of me wearing the entire shirt.

I have officially finished my "Future" art work and i think it came out so well. The lion over the left side of my chest in my shirt is my favourite screen printing image out of all of the screen printings because it came out so good and as well it is the largest out of all of them. If  i was to change any of the things about this future art would be the sailors wheel that didnt come out to good because i made so many errors on it. I didnt press hard enough when queegying and as well there wasnt enough paper to stabilize the image while queegying. Overall i am ver proud of my "Future" art and i think it turned out so good.