Screen printing with Josh Saunders (an illustration student at CSM) in the studio last week. Here you can see one of his incredible fine line illustrative drawings....
A close up detail of the Acetate we printed, some of the lines were as
fine as 0.2mm
Josh had made a wooden frame and we stretched a very fine mesh on it,
the tension wasn't great but it coated and exposed almost perfectly.
Printing with acrylic mixed with screen printing medium.
Getting the number of pulls right was problematic because of the fine lines
- after a few trials we used a textile squeegee which had a half rounded edge.
A screen stretched under proper tension would have made things easier -
but it's always good to be reminded that you can achieve great things
with basic materials!
Detail showing the final print - nice work !
A close up detail of the Acetate we printed, some of the lines were as
fine as 0.2mm
Josh had made a wooden frame and we stretched a very fine mesh on it,
the tension wasn't great but it coated and exposed almost perfectly.
Printing with acrylic mixed with screen printing medium.
Getting the number of pulls right was problematic because of the fine lines
- after a few trials we used a textile squeegee which had a half rounded edge.
A screen stretched under proper tension would have made things easier -
but it's always good to be reminded that you can achieve great things
with basic materials!
Detail showing the final print - nice work !
