I See Faces - Monoprinting Continued

During the mono printing workshop, I also printed some potential backgrounds for one of my gifs. 

We had limited colours to work with so I printed some of these with the intention of altering the colours on Photoshop afterwards. I think the bright pink and purple is too overwhelming for my gif. 

These prints didn't turn out very clearly, probably because they were second or third prints so there was not much ink left on the plate. I do like the more subtle colours and textures but the outlines are not clear enough for this to be recognisable as a bin. Drawing over some of my prints with fine liner made this clearer but I am concerned that adding too much detail in the form of black outlines will distract the eye away from the movement of the dog. 

I scanned both sides of my stencil (above) because I think these are viable options to use in my final gif. I think they are clearer than my actual prints. I placed the stencil back on top of some of my prints and realised that this achieved a combination of texture and crisp white outlines which I liked. 

Using Photoshop, I altered the levels and contrast and brightness values to see how this could change the image. The bin was becoming more and more faint along with the background so I deselected the bin and floor line so that I was only altering the wall and floor colour and the bin remained clear.

I then played around with the hue setting to see what the image looked like in different colours. I think the first one looks too much like it is outdoors but I like the yellow and purple together or maybe the purple and orange because I want to make sure the white dog stands out agains the background and I am unsure the yellow is strong enough to do this.