Uni Life! - Screen Printing

 

Yesterday at the Hub I screen printed. I draw a picture last and gave it to the technician at the Hub she then exposed it onto a screen for me.   

 

This is how my screen turned out I like the hand drawn look it has and I also like how I incorporated the honeycomb shape for bee and the butterfly. I like the sharp straight lines oh the honeycomb and the butterfly wings just blend together. As you can see the is card and brown parcel tape going round the edges of my picture this is to prevent leaks on the print although I forgot to look before I started to print so the paint leaked on one of my prints. 

 

 

 I also mixed my own paint I went for an orange because it reminded me on the orange bee Colour. I mixed the paint myself with help from the tutor, I mixed it 50/50 paint to fabric media, the paint is to give it colour and the fabric media is to make sure that I could print screen onto fabric.   

 

 This is how one of my prints turn out I really like the faded effort. this was because the paint going through the screen had dried on it so the fresh paint was only getting through certain places and therefore giving this faded effect.

 

  (This is me screen printing.) 

 

This is a more clear print (on paper).

 

 

This is the print on fabric I have decided to embroider on one or two, to show different skills can be used in different ways.
I will embroider on these in the future but for now this is what they look like.

This is a close up on the middle print, I really like the hand drawn look of the print.

To evaluate I really loved doing this printing.