A sneaky peek unless you've received yours already.

I'm quite enjoying the whole screen print thing for our xmas cards. This design (right) was developed as a set last year but its been vastly improved by Bea before going to print. So what have I learnt from this?

Colour is very important and the colours Bea chose go together fantastically, an area I wish to improve on so have made it an area for improvment. I'll ad my painting development grid below.
It's important to keep the screen 'wet' with ink otherwise the screen will clog, and I had plenty of problems with this which led to a complete clean and restart.
Check thickness and consistency of ink. This was probably also a reason for the screen clogging.
Don't press too hard. I'm eager to get it right but this is just hurting the process.
Allow the emulsion to bubble before using. I think I was lucky but it's good to know.
Add relif corners to the screen to add distance between screen and paper.

I did manage to get anice little production line, with the basic equipment I have, and finished with what I felt was a good result, even if some of the blue areas look like they have more 'snow' than others :)

Until next year...

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