Neat print portfolio

http://www.hilaryatthecircus.com/gallery/prints/

Screen Inspiration

http://www.vahallastudios.com/

http://www.aestheticapparatus.com/portfolio.php?subsection=identity&page=0

http://albertocerriteno.com/

http://andrewholder.net/

http://www.doublenaut.com/work/

http://www.sonnenzimmer.com/memory/

screen styled album cover art...pleasant surprise on Pandora

BFA Show: Screen

I have decided to do my BFA senior exhibition show using screen printing. I will design prints similar to "The Forbidden City" and "Rome" that you can find in previous posts. I discussed my plan with a couple of professors, including my advisor,  and fellow students.......and I'm jumping into it full swing. I have to produce probably 8 more (for a total of 10) prints for my show in the spring. I have prepared all the files and layers digitally from my original photographs. I will be working on the printing for the next few months. Fun times!

The show will combine my following passions: travel photography, graphic design, and printmaking. My focus and purpose is to embrace manual printing in an increasingly digital era. The process combines digital and manual work, but the end result is printed by hand......with a hand mixed color palette of paint. I have control over the entire process from traveling to the destinations, shooting the photographs, creating digital images from the photographs in Photoshop, mixing the paint, and printing/registering the individual layers. The serigraphs are art for the sake of art, and the images are simply beautiful to look at. I might sell them in the show, and I might not.

Here is a sneak peek at one that I'm working on that will be 7 colors (2 down, 5 to go:)

CMYK: Screen Printing

I recently tried printing CMYK by hand. It's not my favorite. It's very technical and does not produce quite what I desire. I am probably just not great at the printing yet, but the Key image seemed to flood, as the dots were so close together. I set the angles in Photoshop as advised for my screen mesh, but they still seemed to blend unfavorably.

After preparing the channels for CMYK in Photoshop I combined the layers into a separate file and experimented with printing order (using each layer {C, M, Y, and K} at about 80% opacity since I use Pantone colors/inks for halftone screening). I shifted the layers around until I got the image that I desired to print. The order I settled on was first Magenta, then Cyan, Yellow and lastly black for my Key. The commonly suggested printing order is, of course, light to dark YMCK. Perhaps straying from this model is why my results were unfavorable. I will have a higher quality image soon enough, but here are some images from the printing process:

Web Design

I'm learning to code for Web Design class...CSS, tables, xhtml...I thought I would get into the season for tonight's lab :)...check it out

http://cscidbw.etsu.edu/singer/csci1710/inclass/lab7/index.htm

(writing and image taken from wikipedia)

Printing Rome

This print is from a photograph I took at a stop on a train on my way to the Cinque Terres from Rome.

I printed all 7 colors in about 4 hours for an edition of 10 serigraphs (not including the time it took to create the image in Photoshop, separate and print the layers onto transparencies, coat the screens with emulsion, and burn in the images).

Here are some images (I'll have to take a higher quality photo of the final version later)...

edition of 10 prints

digital print from Photoshop version (mixing colors to print)...

layers of transparencies (negatives)

The Brain, The Cottage, and The Forbidden City

Digital images: final versions of my first 3 projects working with serigraphy...

Printing the Forbidden City

...following up on my "Screening" post last week, here are some more images from printing my Forbidden City serigraph...I'll have to shoot some higher quality photos soon of the final version, but there are some really nice textures in there! (from raster based image...posterized in Photoshop, and separated layers for printing...)

edition

Final version

JI

Here is one of my first projects...I was just learning the technique, but here are images of the project at different stages of printing

digital image-vector...good place to play with color...

Screen Things

Here are some things I use in order to complete the process....

Also, I always listen to Christmas music while screen printing because I feel like a little worker elf.

emulsion deep pressure screen cleaning thing

dry rack and spray bath thing

ear buds and water pressure gauge things 

emulsion remover chemical thing

screen things

...fan

exposure unit thing...to make sleek stencils using emulsion-coated screens

transparencies...taped to screens coated with photo emulsion (light sensitive when dry until exposed) and placed in exposure unit (think of it like a film negative...) so that the black areas will become the negative spaces in the screen that create the stencils through which the paint is squeegeed onto paper

a table with squeegees and paint, and screen things

the box thing where the screens sleep while the photo emulsion dries