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silk screening tutorial- stencil.
Silkscreening is a great way to get your designs onto paper, fabric, metal, wood- pretty much anything! The method doesn’t actually use silk- but it’s a fine mesh that’s stretched across a frame. It allows you to use more complex design that a a stencil and spray paint or paint because the mesh allows you to attach islands that would otherwise be lost. You can block off areas of the screen in various ways- using a light sensitive fluid to create a very detailed image, or using viscous fluid to block out some parts of the mesh. The very simplest version of silkscreening uses a stencil, and this is the method I’m going to explain here.
This particular method uses contact paper (or sticky-back plastic as it’s known to schoolchildren and librarians alike), but you can also use a sheet of acetate, paper, card or stencil film. I’m going to go with contact paper for this one because although it’s not really re-usable (many prints can be made with the one stencil, but once you clean up and peel it off it’s pretty much gone) it does happen to make pretty clean images.
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printmaking+pattern.
Time to show some of what I’ve been up to over the long and quiet month of December! The above is a linoprint, which works quite nicely on fabric, but not so well on the texture card. (Underneath is my incredibly messy desk!)
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january photos.
I went for another walk around our neighborhood a week ago, it was an amazingly bright blue morning, and i managed to find a few patches of green. I had a allotment for a year, just up the road, and we were lucky enough to meet some friendly people. There isn’t really any way to meet people around where we live, so the only people I meet tend to be students. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but it was nice to talk to grown ups once in a while!
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Bookbinding Workshop with Richard Roberts.
Well, the first post ought to be fairly momentous, and happily on the 16th of October we had one of the most useful lessons in the three years of an Illustration degree. We were given a day workshop with Richard Roberts, a London-based printmaker, illustrator, and graphic designer. We were shown the ins, outs and [...]
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