About The Author: Screenprinting Final Outcomes (What went Wrong)

Nothing has ever made me feel more stressed out than screen printing this book, and I have found out that I am in fact terrible at it.

I have come to learn that when screen printing, there are a number of things that can go wrong and ruin your prints, which include; too much ink, too little ink, ink drying on your screen, not lining the images up properly, and the screen not being secure on the frame (even though I couldn't tighten it any more!!!!!^YU&%YTE). The list is probably endless. This is the worst experience I've had with it, and honestly it's scared me away from ever doing it again, and also alot of my clothes are covered in yellow paint. I feel that because my screen was quite large (about A1 size), I had to use a large squeegee, which made it very difficult to apply the right amount of pressure in order to achieve an effective print, which i'm hoping is the reason most of my prints were so terrible. 

I feel so disapointed with my prints as It feels as though the whole module has been leading up to this and it's not how I want it to be. I realise now how difficult it is to screenprint a 2 colour, double sided concertina book, and the amount of consideration and planning I put into it was not enough. 

Fortunately, I managed to achieve some okayish prints that pretty much achieved the look I wanted, although I wasn't 100% happy with them. So the next step will be to scan them in and attempt to manipulate them digitally to achieve decent images. 

My failed prints