About the Author - Print room day 3

After my tutorial I was looking forward to printing, as I had hope that these would be the ones. After spending quite a bit on paper and binder I was ready to go! I kept saying to myself, "In the words of Douglas Adams, DON'T PANIC!".

I kept trying to think about how I went wrong the first three times and tried to keep calm. I've got plenty of time. Don't rush. It'll look shit.

I felt that at this point I had learnt a fair bit about screen printing now, so I definitely felt more confident then I did the first time I printed, which is good! The technicians helped me learn certain tricks and how to react if something goes wrong like bleeding or the screen being dry. So when this happened to me this time, I didn't panic, I resolved the problem, carried on printing.

I'm a lot happier with how these prints came out. Yes, a lot of them still aren't perfect, but I think I've come a long way from not knowing how to expose a screen by myself to producing a successful looking screen print. I'm actually quite proud of myself!