Halloween Screen Print Project
Way back in February I decided that I wanted to give screen printing a try– er, wait, rewind a bit further–last October I created a fun little header graphic on the Happi Devil FaceSpace page for the simple reason that I love Halloween. When I posted it, I received a ton of positive feedback, which inspired me to look into doing something more with it.
Okay, now back to February, I had the epiphany to try to recreate the image using screen prints. Sure it would be easy to just run off a bunch of digital prints, but if I hand screened the prints, each one would be a little special.
So, now with October quickly approaching [how is it August already?!] I figure I should probably get crackin’ on this project if I wanted to get it ready before October. I separated out the colors and figured I could get this done using three screens. I had some transparencies printed at Eco Vantage Reprographics in Signal Hill [after running around to Kinkos, Office Depot, and Staples, each of whom do not stock large transparencies], then prepared the silkscreen frames with Speedball Photo Emulsion.
Then it was time to give it a go!
So there are a few things that I need to work out still:
- Should I be using different paint rather than just plain old acrylic?
- Should I just resolve to rinse out each frame after every pass of paint so that it does not gum up the screen, or would using an alternate paint solve that issue?
But needless to say, considering this is my first run at giving screen printing a try, coming up with one good print out of four isn’t too shabby!