Hand screen-printing

I recently purchased a hand screen-printing kit because I found the system at university of photo exposing screen impersonal, as every print looks the same. I enjoy the unpredictability that the hand painted screens give. This approach to printing works well for experimenting, as it is easy to remove the design and apply another one, whereas with the photo exposed screen and due to the amount of students using them it can be difficult to change design or use more than one screen.

There are however a few downsides to hand screen printing such as the frames being made from wood (as apposed to the aluminium frames at university) this means if the frame gets excessively wet during the cleaning process they are liable to warping. Another problem with this technique is that it is difficult to reproduce an image in a large quantity as after approximately 5-7 prints the image begins to deteriorate.