Work In Progress: Miner’s Wives 3.

Finally, the third version of a screen print transparency I’m making about the glorious South Wales Miner’s Wives from the 1984-1985 strike. It’s based on some pen and ink sketches from contemporary press photos and I’m trying out different materials to redraw the image onto Mark Resist film. This last version is drawn with Faber Castell Pitt drawing pens, which are lightfast, necessary for the photographic screen process. Here are the three versions below.

I need to crack on with this because of a tight deadline, so I’m going to try and combine the best of all three, maybe as a fourth version but more likely, I’ll choose one of these to work into, combining all three drawing materials into a final version ready for transfer to a photo-screen.