Now I had a more concrete idea as to what I was dealing with in screen printing, I started to set up to print some more finalised work. The original revised plan was to create 6 two-colour screenprints, all at A3 set on Somerset off-white paper.
Once again, I started to run into problems. The main issue that I had was I struggled to put enough pressure into the screen to get the colours looking as bright and as clean as I wanted them; printing at A3 required you to use quite a large screen, and being quite short in the arms meant keeping consistent pressure with the squeegee was incredibly difficult. I did manage to get one A3 print done of the first image - but it had a lot of texture to it, which I didn't like. Thinning the ink to make it print better also hampered the amount of pigment to it, so it didn't turn out as intense as the first time I printed.
After another set of unsuccessful prints, I was feeling pretty dejected about the module and I was worried about the prospect of getting a decent set of prints out of it at some point. I figured if I reduced the size of the prints to A5, it would make it a lot easier get the pressure onto the screen that I needed. It would also save me a lot of money in paper and ink, as I would need half the amount.
With this in mind, I scaled my images down to A5 and set them up as a set of positives, ready to be exposed at the next opportunity
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