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

Nooga Forever

I love Chattanooga, Tennessee, and I am proud to say this is where I am from. Check out this awesome AD by The Johnson Group in partnership with Atomic Films and Jack Parker Photography...with the original "Dreamin" by Allen DiCenzo and Roger Vaughn.

http://nooga.com/156669/advertisement-featuring-chattanooga-recirculates-online/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp7t7-kuGXs&feature=player_embedded

Jalisco

A shout out to my friends in Jalisco!

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I love the detail put into the illustration for this package design. It reminds me of passing by the fields and fields of green tequila plants in Jalisco, Mexico. Nice typography, colors, and textures.

Lovely

Package on Lovely Package by Squat Design

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Oh summer

I have not forgotten about you, Blog, I have just taken a leave of absence to travel the world, launch my summer internship, and enjoy friends and family. I shall return. Long live summer!

Something interesting I ran across at the Summer Palace a few weeks ago in China. A man writing out ancient Chinese characters with water and brushes on the sidewalk...using both hands and creating mirror images. Good to be back, but I miss it already.

Avant Garde Christian Influence to Abstract Expressionism

http://gracecarolbomer.com/home.html

Gosh, check out the spiritual symbolism Mrs. Bomer incorporates in her abstract expressionist paintings.