Screen Print Samples.

This is an image of the VW beetle car screen printed
on dip dyed linen scrim and then stitched into.

 This screenprint was on white white linen scrim which didn't look right with my colour palette
so I dyed the background with coffee and then again stitched into it.

 Another screen print on line scrim again dyed with coffee and stitched into.

 This image has been screen printed onto light silk habotai.



I really enjoyed print it was quite challenging trying to get your colour Palette right and varying the patterns across the fabric. The fabric had chosen was white linen scrim  which was far too light for the background of my of my colour palette. So I decided the best way round this is to to dye the background colour coffee, and the best into use was coffee itself. I was pleased with the results as I felt the screen printing was not as stark as the white background. After I finished the samples I decided to stitching to them to add some texture and I felt this worked and I could see that some of the images could be made up to cushions and curtains. I haven't yet decided whether I really like them or not. I think I will have to wait to get all my work together and see how it works for the presentation.

Unfinished samples of screen print.

 I have masked part of my screen off to produce the image above.

 This is the whole of my screen been printed out at once. 

Here are pictures  of my unfinished samples during screen printing.

 This is a partial screen print which I have done on cotton mix silk.

 This is the finished  screen print but unfortunately they aren't my colour palette.



 The above samples are not my colour palette  so I need to rethink my colour palette to get it right. The top samples, the background is too white and the bottom samples are the wrong pinks for my colour palette. So now I'm going back to blue sky thinking until I get my colours right.