The final project in screen printing was a monoprint, which means we use the printing process to create one-of-a-kind images. There are a lot of ways to do this, but the way I chose was to create a repeatable matrix, which was basically a stencil made of a piece of clear acetate that I taped to my screen. Very high tech, people. My stencil was dandelions, because I like how other-worldly they look when they're poofy. And I wanted to make the connection between the shapes of the poofy dandelions with the star patterns.
Once I had this stencil set up, I drew directly onto my screen with water-soluble crayons. I changed up the background colors and the patterns to create the feeling of different times of day. I have ordered them so they can be read as a progression of end-of-day to night.
This process made a lot more sense to me than the other screen printing projects because it felt more direct. Instead of bothering with screen fill and photo emulsian, I could just draw on my screen and print that.
I don't know if screen printing is for me-- I am a painter and I like to touch the images I am working with. It felt like a lot of extra tools and chemicals to create something that I could make faster and better by hand. I don't have a strong desire to create my own multiples of images when I can just scan them and order prints. Screen printing is great for clothing, but I don't have a strong desire to put my art on clothing. Looks like me and screen printing were not meant to be, and that is ok.
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