One Week Book - Screenprinting & Final outcome!

Positives ready for screenprinting! I have never done positives by hand, only digitally so this was a new experience for me. It was honestly nervewracking trying to make sure everything aligned properly and using a lightbox was a first too!

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Mixing our screen printing colours! Initially we had decided on a muddy lilac colour but when we mixed this more berry coloured purple we all really liked it with the yellow so we decided to stick with it. I am a pro at mixing mustard yellow.

screen prepping madness

Each of us took it in turns to pull prints, we didn't decide on a set amount each; I wanted to do a few extra incase some went wrong. We had a little trouble with the right corner of our screen, on some of the prints it wasn't coming out (no matter who was pulling it) eventually we ended up adjusting the screen bed a little.

Once the first colour was on it was really exciting! Screen printing is such a fun process, whenever I do it I just want to keep screenprinting everything forever. The second colour going on was a glorious moment as the whole image just came together. Our layers registered pretty well so there was nothing was terribly disjointed, also since the purple was more of a pink tone the overlap colour was orange-ey instead of a muddy brown which was a nice surprise!

Screen stripping gear. Health and safety is heavy duty at Blenheim walk but at least I didn't blow the fuse on the jetwash this time. 

We tried to keep elements of the library in our imagery such as the stairs, arches and books lying about. I actually really like how the stairs pages have turned out, each being the same layout but with elements added in the arch/ on the sofa. This simplified layout really helped to tell the story more clearly than when every page was drastically different. I feel like maybe we should have spent a little more time on ideas, as we came up with an idea and since we all liked it we just went with it - it may have been helpful to weigh up some more different ideas for comparison.

I am not good at folding.