This week has been a busy week. Ive been trying to develop a range of sketches and paintings to scan in and work with. Tie is starting to catch up with me and there's only a few weeks left until deadline, which makes me feel slightly nauseous! Ive decided that some of my ore successful developments and paintings need to be sampled with so on Thursday i headed to the Print room. I wanted to work with my geometric bulbs and onions as i thought they would look particularly good as a screen printed fabric. I purchased some natural canvas fabric keeping in with the theme of nature and natural form. I then made up my screen.
Screen Print the Student Way...
1. Decide which areas of your image you want to be positive in your screen and fill them in with a black layer on Photoshop.
2. Print the image off onto paper.
3. Photocopy the image onto acetate (3copies of each image will suffice.) The darker your copy the sharper the print will be.
4. Cut around your image leaving a 1cm gap. Then sellotape the 3 acetate images together lining them up so they create one dark silhouette image.(Use a window or a light box if necessary)
5. Select a screen that will fit your images on.
6. Lay your acetate images onto the UV Exposure Unit and lay your screen face down on top. (Leave a 2cm gap between your images and the edge of the screen.
7. Close the lid of the exposure unit and switch ion the vacuum allowing the light to expose your images.
8. After 20 light seconds, lift up the lid and take your screen to be hosed down.
9. Hose down your screen thoroughly allowing all pigment to be washed off, exposing your images underneath. (This can take a while and sometimes the screen does need to be scrubbed a bit.)
10. Take your screen to the dryer and leave to dry for 20 mins.
11. Get a cup of coffee/tea.
12. Remove your screen fro the dryer.
13. Voilà! Your screen is complete and ready for you to use!
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