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 Screen printing and printing with bicycle cogs:


As a development for the 'Fromthegroundup' brief I decided to create prints based on bicycles and cycling as it not only a green and sustainable mode of transport but it also links to my current collection project. I decided to choose the shapes of bike cogs to use bc I believe that they are a dynamic and interesting shape. They are not just smooth lines or curves but have dips and curves, and provide and interesting image. 

However, these two processes did not go as planned. While screen printing I only managed to get one good print and I believe that having this shape as a 2D print took away from it and it felt flat and boring. There was no depth to the image and I think that the two inks that were used in the screen print blended in a way that made the colour look dull and somewhat muddy. The screen prints were mostly fails as I believe that I may have used too much ink causing it to spill out, underneath the stencil that I had made. Overall, I am quite disappointed with the screen prints, don't think that I considered the layout and the composition of the print carefully enough and I believe that this resulted in a messy and clumsy print, that felt lacklustre, boring and dull. 

Printing from bike cogs also didn't go the way I expected it to, I covered the full cog in ink, however when pulling the cog back off the paper the printed image was left patchy. I tried to rectify this by pressing down harder onto the cog and trying to put even pressure on the whole area, this worked well for some of them and not for others. I also found the ink used to be quite tacky and when pulling the cog off the paper the ink seemed to have visible pull marks that I believe caused the image to look messy and amateur. Again due to this being a practice I didn't not think too much about composition and layout, resulting in what I believe to be a disorganised and clumsy print. There was lots of empty space









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