Screen Printed Flower

On the weekend I decided to take a full day to do some printing (something that I haven't been able to do in while), it was also a chance for me to try out my new silk screen and my new (small) studio space at home. A couple of weeks ago I scanned all my flower monoprints so I could make them bigger and print them out to put onto a screen.

To start I decided to use one of my fuchsia prints and a leaf print, however alot of the detail from the leaf didn't transfer well onto the screen but the flower came out fine. The original print of the fuchsia fits onto an A6 card so for these prints I made the flower bigger so it would fit onto A5.

I decided to experiment a bit and start printing different colours on top of one another, I think the end result will look quite good (though I think the black is a bit too harsh in this image so I will probably keep to neutral colours)

Printed Flowers #3

This is going to be the last of the printed flowers for a while, I have used up a lot of the flowers I had pressed and as it is coming into autumn and winter a lot of the flowers now are starting to die off and I want to start taking this project forward. (Though I do have some leaves that I have still yet to print). I will continue to look for some more flowers to print over the next few months but for now these are the final flower monoprints.

It's clear from the prints that I have done that fuchsia's print the best, I think that because it's a larger flower than the others it was easier to apply a couple of coats of ink without the flower breaking really quickly and it's the one flower that I feel printed with the most amount of detail.

Printed Flowers # 2

Here are the second batch of prints I have done with pressed flowers and leaves.

I think the next thing I'm going to try out with these prints is to see how they transfer onto a silkscreen and also see how they look at a larger size. Each of the prints that I have produced are about A6 in size and with some of the flowers being soo small I can fit about 2 or 3 prints onto an A6 piece of card, so it will be interesting to see how they will look at A5 or A4 size maybe even up to A3.