After arranging the 6 different designs to a poster format I prepared
them for screen print in our old print room in Vernon street. I chose to
use the same colours as the digital designs and mixed the orange as
close as I could with acrylic paint and fixer. This is the first time I
have ever screen-printed my own designs and I wasn't a totally smooth
ride, It took me two days in the end.
I had to use a huge screen for this print, I printed onto paper which was larger than A1 so that I could print the A1 size with some boarder.
This shot is of the first colour screen, I decided to print orange first and black on top.
I printed many test versions to make sure the ink and alignment was correct. I decided to align the second screen by hand with every print which was time consuming but necessary because of some intricate parts of the design.
Some of the test prints did show some issues, here the black ink was not coming through the screen despite several runs. I washed the screen with some water to clear this problem up.
At several points the orange ink was reacting with the black for some unknown reason, after several more test prints this problem seemed to clear itself up.
Also the orange ink was streaky for a while despite a good mix of paint and fixer, this problem was also solved after some test prints were knocked out.
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