Saturday, January 8, 2011

A pretty long winded process but definetly worth it.....thanks Des!  An image is printed, oiled up and placed on a screen.  It's then put in a machine (forget what it's called) and the image is oxidised ? onto the screen.  Then it's washed down, as the water is running through the screen the image emerges.  Off to the drying press for an hour or so......mix up the inks and start the printing!  Ink is applied onto the top of the screen and dragged over the image using a squeegee forcing the ink through the screen and on to the paper beneath.   This process is repeated with each colour ink that you want to use, allowing drying time in between.

The results are great I really like the print I made - the lines are clean and sharp, the colour very vibrant which was exactly what I wanted for my image.

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