What development have I done with the Drawings?
As I have previously said about wanting to print them, I have managed to have a go at printing them today. I got Glen ‘the technician’ to help print one of these images out first just to see if it will work because the detail of my drawings are very fine lined. In the end one of my drawings did manage to come out very good onto the acetate and thought it was crisp and neatly printed. Then Glen exposed my printed acetate image onto the silkscreen using photo emulsion so that he can transfer the image for me so I can print it.
The image did come out very nice and crisp with all the detail shoing on the silkscreen so was very happy about that. There were about 5 minor spots that were showing on the silkscreen where some of the photo emulsion was washed away but I managed to cover up all of the spots so that the ink does not get through them. So now that I have inspected it and covered up any holes and gaps, I was ready to print my image onto some nice Fabriano paper.
What was the result of the print process?
To be honest I was happy very much with the results of my printing process and if i had to rate the difficulty in printing them it would just be a 5 /10. This is a simple print that I printed with just one colour but still had to use some plastic film to align my image on the paper so that the alignment of the image is neat enough. I was very happy with the result of printing this first English and Chinese illness drawing image and did end up looking the way I wanted it to look so I was satisfied with that result.
I then wanted to think about trying some of the special paper with the hair and fibres embed into the paper which is indian paper. I wanted to try one of these out to see what effect and narrative I could create. When I looked at the Indian special paper, it looked as though it has hair embed in it as to say a toilet has hair inside the toilet room and looking at this paper would help develop the narrative further of my disgusting atmosphere of my Chinese and English Illness. So it made me wanna experiment with this paper compared to the other normal paper but has worked better in terms of narrative.
What will I do next?
I will think about printing the next 3 Chinese and English Illness prints onto the acetate and see if they come out the same neatness as the first one. Once that has happened, then me and Glen can think about exposing the next 3 of them images onto 3 other silkscreens and hopefully they will come out neat and crisp as the first successful image. After I have managed to successfully print these out I might either think about using a second colour on them or I will just leave the images how they are but I will see…
