The ‘Highway Man’

I am Chris Mullen and my senior show, "The Highwayman," is a series of four screen printed posters, mostly three colors, as well as split fountain prints (mixing colors in one run). 

This project has been on my mind for a long time. I came to school knowing my path would be Graphic design. I have been kicking around ideas for this project for almost three years. I felt kind of stuck on some of those ideas, and there wasn't really a lot of making going on within those ideas that I enjoyed, so somewhere along the line I decided to start making these little drawings. I'd say I made somewhere in the range of 150-200 of these drawings. I kept making them and eventually started to see what I wanted to work with moving forward. I then asked myself: did I want them to be all digital and more realistic or less realistic. 

Everyone sees something different. Things tend to be as simple as we let them be. My intention was simple: to make. I hope the viewer allows their mind to go wherever it wants to go. I did, and it was fun. I am going to do it again.