Tracings and Screen Printing

Using the light box and tracing paper i created a tracing using the visual sheets i recently created. These tracings are for a repeat print. Here is my practise tracing.

After creating my practise repeat pattern tracing and looking at some example tracings i realised there was way too much white space and not enough texture in my work (such as broken lines, dots and different sized lines).

 This is my final product, and will be turned into a screen to print onto white cotton. I shall experiment with colour and backgrounds and different textile process's.

Now my tracing has been turned into a screen it was time to spend time in the printing room to experiment with colours and backgrounds to print on.
I stuck to a colour scheme of red, yellow, blue and purple as these are the colours that stand out most on my mood board and visual sheets.

 Here you can see my set up when i first got into the print studio. I decided to do a simple print first, just on plain white paper using red (Red BTL) pigment.

 This is my paper after i first printed on it, the hard bit is lining it up to repeat it, so using my tracing underneath my screen to line it up i then printed it onto the blank section of my paper.

 This is my first attempt at doing a repeat print and i am pleased with it although after this first attempt i pressed on a little harder with my squeegee because the ink was not pushing through the mesh on my screen properly.

Here are a few more pictures of my time in the print room.

After printing on plain paper and white cotton, i then used a specialist material to devore on, here are some photos.

This is my final product of my devore. I am extremly pleased with the final outcome and personally really like the effect it gives. I shall experiment more with devore.

It is important to keep a note of the pigment and proction dyes i used for if i would like to create the same print or background again. Here are the notes i created for this time in the print room.