Printed pictures

Here are my final screen prints and there original images



Throughout this brief I have got fully into printing especially lino and screen 2 methods of crafting that I originally disliked until i really got stuck in after much repetition of the process
My ideas behind these images came from the "Meaning of Lyff" which is a very visual book full of words bursting with narratives. Most of these followed quite adult themes which would support the humour within the images that I would create.

All these prints started off as rough little sketches from some of my favourite words, I then went on to develop these further with paper cut outs which is a process i'm comfortable with and can also be very easy for screen printing negatives. Within the project I tried to do some of these images as lino prints, this is a process that with my recklessness i find difficult however the mistakes within my cuts sometimes made interesting textures and marks within the prints. Therefore, even though the lino cuts didn't make the finals i do think i will continue to explore this process.
When it came to screen printing my prints became more clean the more I did it. Throughout making these prints i made a few mistakes with my either my exposing or printing sometimes the mistakes where effective other times frustrating. These helped me long term however as i now feel  a lot more confident on the process.
I originally planned to make these prints into a zine but decided against that as i didn't want to digitally print it and lose the artificialness of the print. Therefore, I decided to combine the idea of the zine (which was to do a small version of the book with my illustrations) and translate that as a singular print. I got influence from the Mai 68 book pages of it being a screen print with a bit of informative text at the bottom. making it look more like an encyclopaedia. If i had more time it would be nice to make an A3 size book with the prints and many more as i more developed outcome.
Overall, i really enjoyed my time exploring the process of printing and i think screen printing especially will be a good direction for development in my future work as i enjoy crafting with paper cut outs. Therefore screen printing will be a good way for me to play around with the image and change the colours and textures of my work.