Form ~ writing - Screen Printing

With Matilda now finalised, and the Inpress event on the way, which we were invited to be at as guest designers. We felt it was probably about time to do some printing so we had something to sell. We had each designed specimen posters, We had previously developed the screens so now it was just down to the printing.

We started with the first colour of my design, Which was a flat blue based on that found on road signs. With such a large printing area, we found that the paper very often stuck to the bottom of the screen. However it was often sticking to the enamel surfaces, where no ink was getting, so it may have been that the enamel had not fully set. The ink also ran out surprisingly quickly.

Next was the first colour of Joe's design, using the same blue. We used the colours almost to bring the series together as the designs were all quite different. 

Then the second colour of joe's design. Here are the final prints drying, The colours are really vibrant screen printed, far more vibrant than expected.

 Then we moved onto Yaf's prints, the main colour of his design being red.

We did have some issues when printing Yaf's as for some reason the prints were coming out really nicely on newsprint but when we changed the substrate to thicker cartridge paper, it stuck to the underside of the screen and when removed the print was very mottled and grainy.

However with persistence we did manage to get some really clean prints, and the addition of the information in blue added the finishing touch. Hopefully these will sell!