SB2 Prints

Final Prints

Overall I am glad with how my prints came out although in the beginning it took some getting used to. Overall the more I did I began to develop a technique which I found successful. All of my developmental prints, which have been submitted, consist of the same paper stock. The first print I attempted to print on had a gloss/satin finish, although when printing the black ink, as it was quite thick, it caused the paper to stick to the screen; when peeled off the print was destroyed, therefor the choice to use cartridge paper. The stock I chose allowed for quick drying, allowing me to print the screen prints in one session, complying with the time constraints of this brief.

First Print

The first print I created failed to have the correct density of ink to create a fully dense layer. This may have also been because the ink was too acrylic based (too thick to go through the screen) to tackle this issue I added more binder, ensuring not to add too much so that the layer doesn’t become translucent.

Second Print

This print was more successful in terms of the ink laying out on the page, although it still didn’t have the crisp print I needed for the poster to make this layer clear beneath the other content of the poster. This was because the screen was not flooded properly before printing the layer, after doing this correctly the print laid on the paper how required. I knew this was the problem because when testing another layer and this was done successfully, as can be seen above the colour came through as desired.

Within these experiments I was testing with different amounts of binder with the colour block to recolour the image below, I was experimenting with using neon orange as I thought it would bring the picture out more and communicate the use of bright colours used within the carnival. Although when used with in the printing process too much binder was used making the colour too translucent, when more acrylic was added to intensify the tone of the orange in the overlay it lost its neon nature in the print making the experiment redundant. As the orange lost its neon qualities it made the element of the piece blend too much with the red aspects of the emblem. This led to the decision to stick to my original design and use yellow ink to recolour the black and white image.

These experiments show different variations of my design, although the colours are used the same in each instance, the design varies slightly in placement between each of the prints. Although most people would want the print to be identical each time, I think the slight change in placement shows the fact that the print is not done digitally, as with traditional prints each one is slightly different.