Screen printing Module 3

Screen printing Module 3

Today I decided to screen print some of my ideas and see how they would look physically printed instead of digitally. The whole process was a bit difficult given the fact I had my screen stolen and I had to start all over again, so you could say it was a long and painful process. I decided I wanted to print my full typeface to see what kind of outcome I could get as I knew screen printing had a very specific style that I wanted to acquire with my work. 

This was my first successful print and a very simple one at that. For this I only used simple cartridge paper and some plain blue ink. The outcome was very basic but that's what I wanted, to show my typeface in a very simple form. I really like the texture that has come out from the letter forms. It looks quite worm out and old.

For this one I used a very bright fluorescent red and a metallic shiny purple ink. The outcome was quite bizarre and you can hardly tell the ink was purple but it works quite well. The ink almost seems like chrome or reflective. This has print is a really strange one but that's why I like it as you don't always k now how your print will turn out.

This print was done using my logotypes pattern from studio brief 2. I tried to do a gradient when processing this screen by applying some red ink half way down the screen. Unfortunately I did not get the outcome I expected how ever I was surprised to receive this outcome which turned out really nice. Its always the mistakes that turn out the best it seems.

This final one was done with the same colours as before but slightly mixed together. I also attempted to overlay the pattern with one of the shapes from the typeface design. Unfortunately the overlay did not quite work exactly how I wanted it too, however it has a really cool effect in general.