More screen printing

I wanted to try the exposed screen one more time. I started using black acrylic and made a few copies. Then I wanted to try to recreate the water muddy colors of the river Thames, so I mixed several colours, orange, red, brown, yellow, black with some base medium and printed it.

The result is a transformation of the original image. The black and white print looks more like an X-ray, and the prints with muddy-grey-brown acrylic look like a depiction of or a constellation. I didn't like them, but somehow the prints are growing on me. I left them on the rack to dry; I'm impatient to go and see them again. They are on A3 and A2 paper, but I would like to see them very small, like A5, or to create a series and make them into zine?

Thinking of the screen printing process as a long labour. Creating the positive, in my case digitally and printed on digital film, coating the silkscreen, drying, exposing, washing, drying, setting up the table, and mixing the acrylic. Printing. Dry the print. Wash the screen and dry it. Enjoy and reflect on the final print. Rethink. Go back and start the process again after making changes.

I wish I didn't have to do it all in a rush and under stress so I can absorb it and enjoy it more, but because of the setting, the workplace, and my constantly busy racing mind, it is this way.

Having said the above and reflected upon I need to make adjustment were I can, such:

1- don't aim to do to much in the given time I can do the printing.

2 -chill!!!!

3 -chill even more!

4 -slow down, be aware of each step, take notes, mentally and write them down. Register the process. slow down even more.

5 -segregate from anything else, just have the making of the print in mind. (good luck with that)