Screen Printing Fiasco Numero Uno

Aloha friends!
It’s been a while since I’ve used this bugger.

Darkroom

Since I’ve graduated school I’ve found myself having a ton of free time on my hands—so I’ve decided to finally use the screen printing kit I bought a while ago. So far there has been a lot of trial and error (heavy on error). I’ve learned that dark-room safe-lights are a must, and will cut the clean up time from 2 hours to about 20 minutes. They also help prevent the need to buy replacement pants.

This was the result of the escapade sans safe-light. It was just a test to begin with, so I got a lot out of it, but I certainly learned that I need to see in order to do. After this, I Amazoned my way into owning a safe-light.

After that, things went incredibly smoothly. I Jerry-rigged an exposure system, laying the screen between the toilet and tub, with a floodlight straddling the two. At first I was concerned that the light may be bouncing off the tub, but it turned out really well.

Printing

Just a bit of tape and it prints fine. Test 1/1

With this, I have a large stack of newspaper that I’ve brushed some half water-half red ink over the top. I’ll be printing the design on top of it with either black or white ink, depending on the contrast needed.

To be continued…