On Saturday December 5, Michelle, Mauve and Setareh who work together at Whitecap books dropped by to do some screen printing and so I could do my tortilla tutorial that I had wanted to do for Michelle Meals. I had 4 screens assembled and prepped with photo emulsion so we didn’t waste any time with waiting for screens to dry any more than they have to.
Printing Peanuts
The easiest part was getting Michelle going since I still had her screen from the Peanut shirt that she made about a year ago. Michelle printed her 3 colour separation in the order of green eyes, black head, and white features. Alignment is the toughest challenge with Michelle’s print because we put the 3 layers on a smallish screen.
Layers of Peanuts
I set the first screen to start developing and we started printing Michelle’s shirt. There were no glitches with the photo emulsion process for any of the shirts, so they came out really neatly. The one danger with using the wooden frames is that water gets trapped between the screen and frame. I have a hard time creating a full seal between the wooden frame and the fabric screen since the tape won’t stick to the wood through the screen. It’s a good idea to get a layer of the emulsion in there when coating the screen to create a full seal so water doesn’t get trapped when washing out your screen.
Glamour Me Fangtasia - By Setareh
Mauve did some undies inspired by The Wire. I was really impressed how Bub’s outline turned out and decided to keep the screen to make more prints with different colours.
Bubbles - Much Obliged
Check out the full set of pictures at Flickr!
And keep track of what Michelle eats!
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That looks like so much fun! All the items turned out really sharp looking.
Is this the screen press you had way back when? Looks like it’s serving you well.
Will there be pictures of the tortilla tutorial as well?
Posted on December 21, 2009 at 7:48 am.