After completing a Screen-printing introduction exercise i am now aware of the processes involved and am competent enough in the subject to complete the processes myself. for this particular exercise, in the run up to it i first designed a simple self made image using two colours on Adobe Illustrator, this image would then be printed, made into two stencils and then screen printed using the processes that will follow. my self made image was in the style of my art movement, as there is minimal imagery in my art movement i used a simple combination of shapes to form an image. this allowed me more freedom when it came to actually printing the design through the stencil onto paper. The fact that the actual “printing” process is not using a conventional printer but instead printed manually means that you tend to get small imperfections within the work, perhaps lines will not quite line up exactly, or small areas of the design will be slightly faded. i found this to be advantageous as it gave my design a more hand-made finish, giving the colours a certain gravity and texture to them. this is not normally done when using conventional printing and so I liked the way that it looked. if i were to do this again i would like to create a more complex design, possibly using more than two colours, this would increase the chance of errors occurring however i feel it would be the next logical step in learning the techniques and processes within screen-printing
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