"Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my money in thee.."

Sticking with my theme of religion and the Catholic Church being corrupt and money hungry, I based my silk screen print on the idea of the Sacred Heart.  Its a traditional image that can be seen in most houses in Ireland, mine included so I decided to take it and alter it.

With silk screen, its a very fast method of printing and very easy to make an edition.  The only slow part of the process is applying the emulsion to the screen and the many times you have to wait for the screen to dry between colours, washing, applying emulsion etc.

After working out the layers and the colours, it was easy to get the image done in a short space of time.  I decided on a kind of turquoise colour for my background, followed by brown for the hair, skin colour and very bright yellow.

I then decided to also add text to really bring my idea across.

I then decided to replace the Scared Heart picture in my house with my print....purely for artistic purposes of course!

Decided I'm going to leave it there for the rest of the day and see how long it takes the family to notice I've switched them ;)

Xmas holidays now to finish the last few bits of the projects from semester one before the Assessments in January!