Screen Printing

The initial experiments with screen printing consisted of having the design separated into two colours. The corner detail of the design aimed to be printed in a maroon shade with the centre and text piece of the design being printed in a dark green. Both of these colours can be seen in the paint work of Kirkgate Market and therefore influenced the decision to use these paint colours in print. However, due to having to perfectly align the corners with the corners of the page, this raised a number of issues when printing. On the more successfully positioned prints, there were imperfections in the print. This meant that the prints weren't printed to the highest quality. 

To overcome this issue, the decision was made to experiment with printing white ink onto coloured paper. 

Although this outcome was successful, it does not reflect my screen printing capabilities and therefore would like to experiment with creating a gradient background to the print. Through speaking to the print room technicians, I have been made aware that this is a difficult task to complete due to the sheer scale of ink that would be going through the screen.