Screen Printing Project

This one goes out to Kathy McTee! I finally got around to printing James' t-shirt last week. I was really pleased with the outcome. I tried it on several different colors of t-shirts and liked the black on olive best. I also printed some of my botanical screens onto shopping bags, paper and fabric. One one of them, I did a collage. I hope to add other stuff to the paper shopping bags, like make them more collage-y so that I can use them for gift bags in the future. They are paper bags from different stores - it's a form of recycling, I guess.



I definitely learned a few things like that you can only print a few times before a screen starts getting blurry - or maybe that's my inexperience. I also figured out the hard way that you need to print onto a flat surface. It was a fun project! Maybe I will use the botanical screens on some t-shirts for myself soon!

Screen Printing Class

I am having so much fun in my screen printing class! We are learning several different methods - painted screen, stencils, photo emulsion and this other one where you paint this blue resist on and then put another emulsion on and wash the resist out. The one above is a painted screen. Kathy, the teacher, has all these great clip art books and tonight I found a Star Fleet Manual in the pile. We're talking nerd collectible, from the 1960's. It gave me a great idea to print a page from it onto a shirt for my husband (who is a big Star Trek fan) for his birthday. He will love it! Next week I will hopefully get to print from two of my screens. I am really excited to see how they turn out.