Screenprinting!

Spent the day in the studio doing screen printing today :D The image above shows a set I made using a digital screen printing technique to produce a photographic like print using the printer colours CMYK and a series of dots.. I found the printing process a lot harder for this technique as it had to be aligned perfectly to create a photographic image however I did find the results really interesting. The colours and style are very Pop Art like! I really like the two tone ones and the one with yellow and black as they are very striking! I didn't use the exact CMYK colours as they had run out, so these might have turned out more accurately had I used them, but it was interesting to see what would happen if I mixed the orders and colours up!

The image below shows the end results of the illustrative screenprints I did a while ago, I forgot to upload a collective photo of them :D I really like these as a collection, it would be fun to do some more one day as the marks made are really interesting, especially in some of the backgrounds~ I hope you like them too : )

I also tried another new screen printing technique today using watercolour paints and painting a design directly onto the screen! I chose to try and paint a girl and a splattered/drip background as my project is focused on 'traces' so I wanted to try and produce a faint 'ghost' effect! I found the results really unexpected and unusual! Once the paint had dried (this was scary as usually the screen gets damaged if you let the paint dry haha) you use the screen printing medium to scrape it across like paint and push it through the stencil~ this way you only get about three full prints from this technique before the paint's exhausted, the print on the left is my first one, the way it picked up the outlines of the paint was interesting, however I prefer the softer effect after the first print as it creates a really gorgeous watermarked effect~