DOTTY FOR LEMURS

In the print Lemur Me Alone, I had a real conundrum with the background.the tree, I had to use a lot of black and white. I would lose half the print on a white background or half on a black one. Introducing a background of grey felt like cheating. I almost scrapped the print, but my mom and the FreeSpirit creative director pushed me to figure it out. I am so glad I did because it is my favourite print now! The solution was to create a tiny pin dot background to give the illusion of grey while still meeting the brief. I added the flat multi-colour dots as abstract fruit in the tree and as a reference to the background. I am very proud of this print.