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Spotting the blacks and adding details. Kickin' ass and chewing bubble gum. I usually save this part for last. The more lead the more smearing. I did this because everthing was blurring together. I needed to separate details so I could stay in the mindset of what I wanted it to look like. Maybe I'm retarded.
Sven Markelius
1952
Screen-printed cotton
Simpson, Fronia, et al. A New World Imagined: Art of the Americas. MFA Publications, 2010. p. 237.
Hand pulled screenprint onto vintage Subbuteo pitches to celebrate the World Cup 2010 in South Africa.
More details at www.ryantym.com.
New placemats for my shop. Both egg laying Australian mammals on one placemat. Interesting fact: apparently baby platypus and baby echidna are called puggles.
Screen from the making of work for an upcoming group show I'm in at the ACP (Australian Centre of Photography) gallery in Sydney entitled 'Batteries Not Included'
More info at izrock.
All done
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Making a workbench to screenprint on.
Finished it will be 4 feet long and 3 feet deep.
I'm building in from these instructions
I switched emulsions recently because this stuff is supposed to be clear which should make multi-layer screenprinting easier. But new emulsion could require a new process, so I made this test screen to figure out how long to burn it for.
I ordered a freakin' gallon of this stuff. I don't quite do enough screenprinting to warrant mixing a whole gallon if it's only going to last 6 months refrigerated. So I figured out the proportions and mixed about a cups worth.
2 tablespoons (a little less) of sensitizer to 1 cup of emulsion. The actual ratio is 7/4 cups of sensitizer to a gallon of emulsion, which works out to 7/128. Hard to get that without getting fancy, but 2 tablespoons to 1 cup is 8/128 which seemed close enough.
I exposed the screen for 15 minutes with increments of five minutes going down the screen. It's a 150watt clear bulb 18 inches above the screen. I also focus the bulb on the frame of the screen and rotate to avoid burning a harder to clean out spot where the bulb is strongest.
All of the increments worked and washed out fine. If I get really picky, the 30 minute mark seemed like the best spot, there was some weird residue in the 15-25 minute areas, but that may have been purely from being lazy during the washout.
The 30 minute mark seemed like the sweet spot with the Speedball stuff as well, so it looks like I don't have to change my process at all! ;)