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Fun Stuff => MAKE => Topic started by: godinpants on 03 Mar 2009, 02:47
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Given the ever dwindling number of art students at my uni (theres maybe 10 of us with a huge building all to ourselves) the print room person has offered to teach those of us who dont know how to, how to silkscreen. theres only a poster up about it, and I haven't been able to find her to ask about it though.
So i ask you. What do i need to silkscreen, and by what to i need, i mean, im asked to supply a picture that will work with easily because im new to it. having no real idea how this works, i ask of you mighty art forumeers, what kind of picture should i have prepared? something already brought down to 2 colours? should i make it the way i would if i were say, making a stencil to spray with?
Also, show me the fruits of your silkscreening love.
(I could've searched, yes, but this board moves rather slow, and when i went to mention it in that shirts thread, it warned me of the age of the thread.)
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You need an all black image printed on a transparent acetate sheet, or for a multicoloured image one sheet for each colour. And i suggest lots of sheets of card. I suggest having a fairly strong image, try to avoid things with thin lines, it does work but it messes up more from my experiance, I've had to wash and re-expose the silkscreens with the image again to get it right. Maybe cos i'm rubbish i dunno.
I imagine the print studio would provide the rest.
It's a lot of fun, being able to do silkscreening/printmaking, esp if you have a proper studio to do it in. I wish I could have a place to do it again.
this is an image i did one in printmaking(sorry i can't seem to find a bigger version of it, i no longer have the large one directly linked on my website, and i can't use the web archive site to find it as where i am is blocking proxies)
(http://www.twistedlittledreams.com/bookmark.jpg)
also the one in my art thread i did in silkscreening to.