Kayakroar's Art

Hiya! It's been a while, and I have made a new print!  For some time now, I have battled with my moral compass of using photographs that don't belong to me, to make monoprints followed by screenprints. Which because of copyright laws, obviously it's wrong to trace images that don't belong to you. For that reason, I have been experiencing some art block and wasn't motivated to create any artwork. Later, I decided to produce art prints of people by just drawing by hand. I didn't use this method of illustration at the beginning of my career, because I was quite doubtful of my drawing skills. However, I wanted to challenge myself (as I do like a challenge) and I found that as long as I keep practising, my illustration skills will improve. So whilst making my abstract drawing ink and screen filler prints, I am going to keep producing screen prints of people. I also love the way this "Spring" print came out and I want to keep making prints like thi...

Hiya, Long time no see! So how are you? Are you doing okay? Hopefully, you said yes, if not just know that this too shall pass. I know that was a super deep way to open a blog post, but lately, as I have started my freelancing career, it has been a jumpy, draining journey. The reason I'm talking about this is that my art career is currently going through a bittersweet stage at the moment. What had happened was, lately that my artwork has been improving. So for the past few months since launching my screen printing career, I have been practising methods and techniques to help improve my artwork. And it has been fun, and sometimes frustrating, (again the unpredictable fun of screen printing!), but what I can say is that it was all worth it. My screenprints improved from using basic paper stencils, ( Like the stencil's you start with when screen printing before upgrading to photo emulsion) I used paper stencils to make my The Cross "It is Finished" print ...