1st print in response to Owen Jones - London riot article.

This image I will admit is very abstract, and isn't obvious when looking at the title that it relates to it.
However when you read the article it dose make a bit more sense. I decided to go through Jones piece and pick key elements which he refers to in relation with the stereotype of the chav. He reflects on the tweets that where posted about the groups involved in the rioting , 'Chav spring.' ( the plants.) , 'Wolfpack of feral inner- city waifs and strays' ( the dog).  There is also a really important argument that happens in this article about how immigration and black people were claimed by David Starkey (historian) played a part.

Starkey refers to a controversial speech made by tory MP Enoch Powell ' Rivers of blood.' The speeches stated that ' immigration would plunge Britain into violent chaos.' - Jones.
Starkey was completely wrong in this claim , most of the individuals involved where white , not black. This is why I added a red line across the image.

So each element of the image do have a relation to the article. I am glad that I decided to cut the dog out of Lino, I think that this has worked really well and adds a good contrast to the more simpler elements of the image. To give the picture more flow I decided to draw/paint the rest with ink and brush. The free flowing sense to get with this technique I thinks adds another element to it and it allowed me to save time and play around with colour more. Colour is still a new thing for my practise but I am happy with the colours chosen for this. The mixture of greens is good and I think that this helps the red to stand out and be striking.  Composition is a bit weak , the red dose cover the animals head and this doesn't make it stand out much , it needed to. I did want the river to run through the whole image and when experimenting on photoshop I found that this was the only way I could get the image to work cohesively. I also decided to screen print it. I have found through doing the process of printing / making the original elements, photoshopping them and then screen print , to have worked in the past to successful level and I really want to carry this on for this module.  It gives the image a great aesthetic and also helps the different elements to look more blended.

However I am aware that if this was an actual editorial brief from industry this process would just not happen due to time constrains , as such it is benifital to do this sort of thing now as it will enable me to build up an archive of images , textures and colours to mash together to create images. So moving away from analog to a more digital approach.