The Day of the Dead Prints

One of the most frustrating things about screen printing is that the printing itself doesn't take much time at all, it's the preparation, cleaning and drying of the screen that becomes laborious. However, I feel that once a print is completed, you have a feeling of satisfaction that you don't get with digital printing. These were my first CMYK prints and the success of the outcomes surprised me; it's still a strange concept to me that with just four colours you can recreate the colours used in a photo nearly exactly.



Above is an example of a completed CMYK print on to a fairly expensive linen blend of paper. I'm really pleased with a few of my final prints, although understandably some of them aren't aligned exactly. That is one of the downfalls of screen printing- despite having your guide, it is still never 100% reliable that your various colours will line up. I produced the image below by removing the magenta from the printing process. I like the way the colours of the text below the image came out .








I left some of these as single colour prints to show how they layer up and create the full image. I also played about with layering single colours with black, which also turned out quite nicely, but obviously lack too much detail to use.