Screen printing blog by Elena Ortiz

By Elena Ortiz/VOCES
(Photos to the right are of students designs for future screen printing projects)

Ahh!! It’s the second to last day of Voces and this is barely my first blog entry!!

Pardon me if I do it wrong, and it’s terribly boring!!

So Monday, June 22 three men from the Trillion Art Space came in to present to us the exciting art of screen printing! Personally, I had never heard of screen printing in general so the presentation was a new and interesting thing to me!  

The first step of screen printing is burning a picture on to a silk screen. (The process of that is terribly confusing, so I’m going to move on!)

The next thing to do is “squidgy” ink on to the screen that overlays your intended piece of material. You want to make sure that the screen holes are completely laced with ink so that the entire picture comes out on the final product.

However be careful, you don’t want to run the ink over the screen too much, or the picture will come out blurry. (I don’t know how this happens, but it’s true. My Octo-corn was ruined because I made this simple mistake. Sad…)

 Once your screen is completely laced, slowly lift off the screen and detach it from the shirt. TA-DAA!!! You have your newly, decked out, blingin’, screen printed shirt!! I was lucky enough to be able to have "My Little Pony" printed on the back of the shirt I was wearing that day! So thanks to the guys who came, we all really enjoyed their presentation!!

   

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