A Visual Representation of Atilogwu Dancersa Visual Representation of Atilogwu Dancers Using Screen Printing in Full Colours in Halftone
CHAPTER ONE
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The main reason of this project therefore is an attempt to give a visual representation of the Atilogwu dancers using the process of full colour screen printing in half tone technique which could be a form of textile painting, which serves as aesthetic purpose in primary colours which can be used to get other colours with high aesthetic values Printing the activities of the Atilogwu dancers on thick fabric is to apply the principle of “memory colour”.
CHAPTER TWO
RELATED LITERATURE REVIEW
HISTORY OF HALFTONE
William fox Talbot is credited with the idea of half tone printing. In the early 1830‟s, he suggested using “photographic screens or veils” in connection with a photographic intaglio process. Several different kinds of screen were proposed during the following decades. One of the well known attempts was by Stephen H. Horgan while working for the New York Daily graphic. The first printed photograph was an image of Steinway hall Manhattan published on December 2, 1873. The graphic then publish “the first reproduction of a photograph with a full tonal range in a newspaper” on March 4, 1880 (entitled “a scene in shantytown”) with a crude halftone
The first truly successful commercial was patented by Fredrick Ives of Philadelphia in 1881. Although he found a way of breaking up the images into dots of varying sizes, he did not make use of a screen. In 1882, the German Georg Meisenbach patented a halftone process in England. His invention was based on the previous ideas of Berchtold and Swan. He used single lined screens which were turned during exposure to produce cross – lined effects. He was the first to achieve any commercial success with relief halftone.
Shortly afterwards, Ives, this time in collaboration with Louis and max levy, improved the process further with the invention and commercial production of quality cross – lined screen. The relief halftone blocks in popular journals became regular during the early 1890‟s. The development of halftone printing methods for lithography appears to have followed a larger independent path. In the 1860‟s, a Hoen and co. focused on methods allowing artists to manipulate the tones of hand – worked printing stones. By the 1880‟s Hoen was working on half tone methods that could be used in conjunction with either hand worked or photolithographic stones.
CHAPTER THREE
METHODOLOGY
This research is a practical research that has to do with the production of interior decoration, to this end, this written aspect is a descriptive report of the production process. This enables a good understanding of interior decoration.
The practical aspect of this research is the production of wall hanging and this was methodologically done with the use of printing materials.
CHAPTER FOUR
DESCRIPTION OF WORK
The printing process of CMYK is sequential. In other to get a perfect representation of the pictorial image, the printing process is to start from the lightest colour to the darkest that is print yellow before magenta then cyan and key (YMCK) not cyan > magenta > yellow > key (CMYK).
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
SUMMARY
This project is based on using the four colour printing technique known as CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow and key also known as black) to manually make a full colour print on a thick fabric using the colorful Atilogwu dancers as a case study printing in halftone.
It shows the beauty and uniqueness of printing in primary colours which can be used to get other colours with high aesthetic values using also a printed form through continuous dot and tone imagery varying in size to generate a gradient – like effect.
CONCLUSION
The method of full colour print is very important as its creativity in representation on pictorial image on fabric is of great importance. Textile designers are to embrace this new invention in screen printing. This also promotes the Atilogwu dance of the Anambra people of Nigeria.
REFRENCES
- Alexanders.com/a-very-brief-history-of-cmyk-20150324 Chief Chibueze Nzekwe (2014)
- Forward printing.com
- http://en.wikipedia.org>wiki>halftone
- JOHNSON: 1994: 72 – 73
- Okolo, Kenechukwu Bridget, June 2014 Okoro, Chiamaka Clara, June 2014
- Petermack 007’s weblog
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- www.clubink.ca/blog/print/history
