For a screen-printing project in one of my previous printmaking courses, we were instructed to create a design that could be later burned into a screen, and able to be make multiple prints to form an edition.

I chose to use a digital illustration that I had made previous to taking the class, and thought it would make an interesting print. Throughout trial and error, I ultimately found that the imprinting boarder would make it more difficult to create consistencies in the edition, so I edited it out, but continued to keep the postage icons to still translate the idea of a stamp.

Through the use of photoshop, I adjusted the image so that it would be able to both fit on the screen during the printing process, as well as to have the DPI count of the image in conjunction to the thread-count of the screen that was used. I thought this project was interesting in how both printmaking and graphic design can come together to create transferable and versatile printing processes and opportunities. It also required the adjustment of halftones and dots-per-inch to enhance the effects of gradience and tone for the final prints.

The assignment instructed the use of only a singular color, so I chose to mix together blues and yellows to get a richly-pigmented green. I finished with about a 10 page edition of the design, and found both the process, and how digital illustration and editing, can really be expansive and full of potential and opportunities.