Etching and screen printing fun

These past two days, I have been pretty productive on the printing front. Monday I managed to attend an etching workshop where I produced a plate of a Teddy Boy combing his hair and the prints were pretty successful! I set out to create this fading image and I tried this out and it works okay but probably best with the screen prints. here are my examples..

Today, I attended the screen printing workshop where I created the images below. After testing a few of these out, I felt that if I proceeded to make wallpaper it will be really successful. My idea is to buy plain (hopefully, second hand) wallpaper to print this pattern on and then staple to a wall. If all fails, I will print on brown wrapping paper or card. This all adds to the my idea of memories, fashion and history.

After talking to people, they mentioned that the frames I bought look as though they held family photos in the past. This I feel links to the trends makers' history. For example, teddy boys were created during the blitz, it was their way of creating their own family within friends that dressed like them and saw the world through the same eyes. This applies to the punks, mods... their own family away from relatives.