More Prints

I have been doing more test with my printing and learning the ins and outs of the process as well as playing with different color combinations. i got some tips from a friend who does screen printing so next weekend i will make some changes and keep going...

こんにちは、東京への歓迎

So Star and I are now in the process of planning our next big trip. It has been a while since we have been anywhere and I particularly am very eager to get out of the country. We decided instead of doing somewhere in Europe again, to do something as far from that as you can get, so we decided on Japan, Tokyo and Kyoto mainly. We are going in early April so hopefully we can catch some of the famous Japanese cherry blossoms.

すぐに会おう

First Prints

So I took my knowledge I obtained in my class and tried to put it into practical use in creating one of my posters. I chose my Stones poster which I felt it would be a good starting point. Things turned out pretty well although I ran across some problems with getting the ink on the paper without the paper buckling under it. I need to figure out which paper will hold the ink the best. The whole screen burning process turned out better than I had hoped, it was decently simple and just took a couple missteps before I got it right. I will continue to do some experimenting until I get this down though.

Print Me A River

Today was my screen printing class at the Etsy labs in Brooklyn. The class was great and I can't wait to start experimenting more with the process and with different materials. They taught us how to set up our own screen printing in our little nyc apartments and everything, so cool. I came up with the design as last minute as I could midnight the night before the class. Not really sure what it is, but thought it would look cool on a shirt. The process was easier than I had imagined it being, we made the screens, I did some test prints on paper, then went on to fabric. Now that I know how to do it I want to work on transferring one of my posters to screens and work on some large prints! woohoo exciting.