Thursday, 20 September 2018

Screen Printing 3

I've prepared this screen for printing and these shirts:





I'm going to print the heads onthe pocket area and then their wings on the back in the center. I'll test it on an old white shirt first.
I've blocked off everything but one head with tape on the back first and will tape that up when done then unblock a different one.

Possibly I haven't been ironing my shirts for long enough

 I used the blue painters tape (sooo much better than the grey btw) to tape up the bits I didn't want to print yet to get the individual prints.



I defintiely want more of a purple shirt for Hilda's designs. I'm gonna see what it's like to have wings on the backs of these.

These ones were all three on one:



I did mess up the darker shirt as there wasn't enough ink (it was the last print) and I had to place it down again to print again. I did have to touch it up by hand.

Next is Peter's screen printing class on the emulsion method of screen printing which I am excited for.