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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! ;)
I bought this bag on a fleemarket in Seoul - maybe someone could translate me what is written on the outside.
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.
today i did my first experimentation with drawing fluid to create a screen for printing. I applied the drawing fluid with a brush as if painting. the fluid was a nice blue. i let it dry and then covered the screen with this red liquid called screen filler, and then waiting for that to be dry. The filler resisted wherever i had painted on the drawing fluid. When i rinsed out the screen filler only the screen fabric that had the drawing fluid on it stayed clear.
This was super fun...cant wait to try this screen on shirts and bags and stuff. I will have to make a trip to goodwill tomorrow to find some things to try the print on.
...sorry for the crappy pictures/comp. i should have a scan of those first two screenprints ready sometime soon.
This is a 5 colour a hand pulled silk screen print printed on 280g white paper. Size is roughly A2 paper size - 594 x 420 mm. Printed at the Edinburgh Printmakers studio in Edinburgh.