The process of screenprinting can be a very meticilous and focused work, but the principle of it is deliciously simple and offers endless ways of experimenting with colours, transparancy, texture, layers, different printing surfaces etc...
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Starting point: a Paint drawing of a somewhat drowsy fish in neon colours
Two years later I recycled the design and I made a colour profile. First I made a plan to seperate the colours into photo negatives
First Layer...
second...
third...
and fourth
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One of the end results with the 4 layers printed on top of each other looks like this:
You can see immediately the charm of screenprinting: rich colours, the influence of the (coloured, here light orange) background, the clear lines, the not 100% overlapping colours, wich create kind of depth in the image, small imperfections and the uniqueness of each motive that makes the result more lively than a smooth design made in Illustrator or other graphical outline program. A copy print can never match the lively colours and sumptuous ink surface of a screenprint....
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After making the negatives, I went to the atelier and started mixing colours and experimenting on different materials. Especially when using a white layer of ink on a coloured surface, it is important to know its level of transparency, when adding coloured layers on top of it.
Various results...
Funny how often in screenprinting mistakes start to lead their own lives...
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