Screen Printing; The Shot Series

Screen Printing: The Shot series

Prepping the screen

Coat the screen with emulsion on both sides, working fairly quickly over surface that can get messy. It's OK to have indoor lights on during this process, but keep out of direct sunlight as the emulsion will become exposed .
Leave to fry in the drying closet for 15-30 minutes

Design

The design must be high-contrast, a positive image. Grays create patchiness and will not allow to print a strong image.
It is advisable that you draw over the lines; Bolder lines print more easily.
If you use multiple layers, you will need to cut out sections and print several times, so be careful to line up the print

Exposing & washing the screen

Once removed from the drying Closet, place the screen in the middle of the light box vacuum, placing two bits of string on the frame so that it is easier to find the screen as it is easier to expose the emulsion. (The emulsion will tell you how long to expose it.)
When The screen is exposed, wash it off in the sink with water, using a special nozzle to my faucet that creates higher pressure. only the unexposed area will wash off. Now the screen isn't sensitive to light, you can take it into the workshop to dry it with a hairdryer

Print it

Clamp down the screen, transferring ink onto one end of the screen as a squeegee is pushed across the screen to flood the open mesh and a reverse stroke then causes the screen to print. Repeat this process over and over to create prints of different colours.

These preliminary Experiments into screen printing using blue, red, grey and French chalk for the background, black for the foreground, dealing with composition ans space.