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Portland Transmission - Relief Screenprint w&w/o Photo

Printmaking, Photography, Screenprinting

Relief Screenprint with and without Photograph
Some basic screenprinting and experiments with printing images back into photographs.

My idea was to make a screen of an image originally in the photograph, and print it back into the same photograph. I wanted to see if it still looked as though it belonged in the photo. Maybe make the viewer decide what was going on and why it looked like it belonged, but was out of place at the same time.

I also experimented with printing on many different types of paper and substrates. Below are samples of prints on ink jet photo paper and laser printers.
PT Image 30: Brown printed on ink jet photo paper. I will definitely use this paper again. Screenprinting ink is water based, just like the ink for an inkjet printer. It dried really fast and looked great.
PT Image 31: Brown and orange on inkjet photo paper.
PT Image 32: I enjoyed trying to get the sign back into the photograph. I think it's successful to a degree, but would include the sign's brackets in the screenprint next time so it doesn't look like its just floating in the photo.
PT Image 33: This is a screenprint on a photo printed on laser printer paper. You can see how the ink separated just in the act of trying to dry on the page. This paper is treated for a dry process that gets baked on and does not work with water-based ink.
PT Image 34: I printed the next layer even though the brown is not in good shape. I suspected the screenprinting ink would print over itself without a problem and that was the case.
PT Image 35: Tan ink on photo paper for inkjets.
PT Image 36: Tan, yellow and blue on photo paper for inkjets.

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