My first home-made screen prints are of my bird design which you have seen evolve over the last few weeks. I have been doodling these little birdies all over the place so it’s great to see them printed as I had envisioned.
Although I have got my screen, my squeegee, my hinged board to hold the screen still and fabric to print on there was still, I am afraid, a fair amount of swearing involved. While most of my printing went really well I didn’t have enough table space set up to easily rest the fabric with wet ink on. This resulted in most of my beautiful prints (which I had felt quite proud of) folding over on themselves and smudging. Oh well, a lesson learnt. I have a plan in my head for next time which will involved trestles, an old door and a card table – and very little space in the room around them.
I couldn’t help myself, I had to post a load of pictures. Check out the t-shirt I printed, its an old one in case I ruined it, but I think it turned out alright!
These are gorgeous! I'm so impressed that this was your first attempt. I could just see myself with ink oozing everywhere--your images are so crisp.
ReplyDeleteI made myself a screen a couple of weeks ago but haven't yet got up the courage to try it out. Having seen your results, I'm definitely going to give it a go. What did you use for ink? Fabric paint? Thickened dye? Screen printing ink? I'm not certain which to try.
ReplyDeleteWow your prints are fantastic Pippa!
ReplyDeleteNICE JOB! I do like the birds - a lot. I agree with Jessica, they are super crisp.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your lovely comments! These weren't my first ever screen prints, they're just the first I've done at home unsupervised;). I took a short course a couple of months ago but was a bit nervous doing it alone.
ReplyDeleteAmanda - I used permaset fabric paint. I'll email you some more info within the next couple of days.
Wow Pippa, they are totally awesome! They look fab. I would love love love to learn how to screen print! Great job :)
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