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

Screening

layers separated

current serigraph

posterized image

I will be posting on here for the next few weeks about my screen printing endeavors.

This is a screen printing project I've been working on for the past couple of weeks. The image is 7"x10.5" and it will be 8 colors in the end...as for now there are 6 colors on the paper. The image is from a photo I took in the Forbidden City in Beijing, China.

I took the digital image into Photoshop and separated the colors into different layers after posterizing the image to the levels I desired to print. I then blacked out each layer and digitally printed each color on its own transparency. These transparencies I then taped to my screens, which I had pre-coated with photo emulsion and let dry. I exposed the screens with the images to the light in the exposure unit to create the stencils. I will continue screening one color at a time until all are complete. The hardest part is getting the alignment just right and taping around the right areas of the screen to prevent paint from bleeding through in unwanted areas and flooding the image, which has happened on some of my prints already...at the top. Nonetheless, I print on.

original image