2D PRACTICE – SCREEN PRINTING

The first step of the screen printing process was to draw an A4 design onto acetate which related to my work from last week. I made the following initial designs.

To experiment with layering, I used the photocopier to scan and overlap the pieces. This created more designs to choose from for my screen print. The following gallery shows these outcomes.

This is the outcome I decided to use for my screen print. It is an overlap of my initial two designs. I worried that with it being so busy, it would be too difficult to see each designs, but found that the outcome came out a lot clearer than I expected.

Screen printing on top of acetate designs.^

I used framing in the following pieces. This helps to isolate one specific part of my design, highlighting its importance.

I then started to use masking and parcel tape to block out some of the print. I also saved the tape – which I wanted to experiment with further as I loved the outcome.