This is What you will need
Materials
* Embroidery Hoop
* Screenlike material (old curtains or something sheer that has a weave you can see the little spaces between)
* Pencil
* Design you want to print (more about that in a moment)
* Modgpodge
* Screenprnting Fabric ink
* Cardbord some big and one small peice
* Newspaper
* Spoon
Clean up Stuff
* Running Water
* Paper Towels
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Research
I began this project hoping to get some experience with silk screen printing. I found a lot of really good resources on traditional ways of silkscreen printing using light sensitive chemicals and transparencies. However, considering the budget and workspace in many public schools I decided to try and find a way to screen print that would be more accessible to the public art classroom. So I added "cheap" and "easy" to the search terms I was using (screen printing tutorial). This is what I learned....
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