Busy busy busy. Clockwise starting at the top: The vector art, color separations printed on vellum, burned image on screen, a screen in progress. I got a new difference kind of screen fabric – it’s orange! My emulsion coating is getting better, if only slightly. This week: PRINTING! I am sort of scared. I hope [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Mar 18
Silkscreen success…so far…
Huzzah! Doesn’t this look SOOO much better than the last one? I did get a little overzealous scrubbing the screen and I rubbed some emulsion off the hat area of the gnome on the left. No worries…I learned in the FANTASTIC Peach Berserk Silkscreen Workshop DVD that you can fill holes with an enamel lacquer [...]
Mar 16
Slow silkscreen progress
But progress nonetheless: This pathetic looking thing is my first burned screen. It’s called a step wedge test to determine how long I need to expose with the distance from the light and the particular brand of emulsion I am using. The blotchy crapiness is due to the fact that I coated the screen with [...]
Mar 04
Sneak Peek-Silkscreen
I am currently trying to learn how to silk screen my art work. The snippet above is acting as my “test” print. Hopefully this weekend I will actually get a screen burned. Go me! Woo! Yea! Woo! (I’m trying to pump myself up.) Dear God please please please let me not screw it up. Please. [...]
Mar 03
Macarons in the Wall Street Journal
I am in a super-busy phase of late (Doing what? I dont’ know!) so here is just a quick little update. Jeffery get’s the Wall Street Journal and handed me yesterday’s edition as there is an article about macarons. It’s pretty interesting. I had a feeling macarons may be the new cupcakes. It also mentions the book. I [...]