One week book - Screen printing.

- Preparing the screen.

- Mixing the colours - brown and green.

filling in small sections with paint - where the screen had been washed to much

Our final screen printed book.

Problems faced:

- Washing the screen after it had been exposed. We spent too long doing this, scrubbing too hard meaning that the image begun to wear away. unfortunately this meant we had to do the whole process again, but luckily, there was another screen on hand. 

- Mixing the colours in itself was easy. We had chosen a bottle green and brown - very fitting 'pub' colours we felt. however the colours on the screen would come out brighter, so we had to make sure we had enough of a contrast between the two tones to get the colours right.

- When it came to the actual printing process, it took me few goes to get the hang of it again - been a while since using screen printing. - everyone was a bit wobbly at first. it was important to use the correct technique and apply the right amount of pressure to achieve a good quality print.

- When the paint was too thick we found that some would turn out too blotchy and blury - blotting the screen and running the paint through would fix this however.

- Other screens were not pressed hard enough, and some were out of line.

- When adding the second colour, it became tricky to line up the print exact; despite using a template to align the prints - the paper we used were different sizes. - we found we just needed to measure up each print exactly to avoid this problem. 

- Despite a lot of the screens been unsuccessful, we did get a lot of good quality prints. - The good thing about screen punting is the amount you can produce - so it was an opportunity to make mistakes, practice and learn from them. By the end of the session, we each got at least a couple successful prints.

Overall this brief has been a really enjoyable learning experience. Working in a group was fun; it was interesting to share and combine ideas. Although at times it was difficult to make a joint decision, we agreed on something that everyone was happy with in the end. I feel that everyone participated and contributed something positive to the final book.

At the same time the brief challenged all of us. - just one week to create a book sounded daunting at the beginning, although it was a lot of work, i feel that we used our time efficiently and cooperated with one another, allowing us to finish on time, and create a successful end result.

I really enjoyed re-learning the screen printing process, and it is something i am interested in trying in the future. I think our print is successful - the colours turned out really well; they compliment one another. I think each of the images had a unique feel to it, but at the same time it flowed well as a book, - I think due to our good communication.