Doors Print with Bill

I forget exactly how the idea came up for this print, but it ended up being a christmas gift for Sharon's father, Bill. Why The Doors? Well, Bill is kind of a Doors fanatic, collecting everything from tees, to books and everything in between.

Sharon and I played with a few pictures of The Doors and Bill, and settled on this pic of The Doors. The pic of Bill is an old one from when Sharon was about ten.

We chopped out John Densmore's head (the drummmer) on the left, and put good old Bill's head in it's place. (Nobody was hurt in the surgery).

Photoshop handled all of the graphics and separations for this print. The white and gray screens were burned with a pretty low halftone of 30 lpi. No flash on the white, just a simple print white - flash - print gray, then off it came. The mesh I used was also nothing special, just a 156 mesh. If I wanted or needed more detail, I would have printed the films at 45 or 55 lpi and burned them on a 230 or maybe even a 305 mesh screen. Since this is not really a commercial print and detail was not critical, I stayed with the lower lpi and mesh.

After the seps were done in Photoshop, I saved the spot channels as a dcs 2.0 file and imported it into Illustrator. That is where I dropped in the logo and colored it the same spot white as in the design.

In the end we came up with a simple 2 color print (white and gray) that I was pretty happy to hand over as a gift.

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...About Bill

Bill (my dad) was originally going to name me Morrison (for obvious reasons) but decided not to because he was afraid I'd turn out like him!

Bill Tux , January 25, 2012 | url

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HaHa That would have sounded funny.

Would it have been all bad? Girls, singer, poet, booze, acid......oh wait Death! I guess so.

Administrator , January 25, 2012