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Learn how to build inexpensive screenprinting vacuum tables, exposing units, etc., that will permit students to produce technically professional prints.
SCREENPRINTING
 Hand painting screen filler on a screen stencil registered to a vacuum table for printing a three-color reduction section of a larger image. This print incorporates images of found objects: deer bones, clear plastic jars and a wire screen grid.  Printing the cyan ink for a four color separation screen print using water-based inks and a photo stencil exposed onto 305 mesh yellow screen fabric. Magenta was printed first then yellow, cyan and black. |
 Printing a large color blend using water-based inks specially mixed to produce a dried ink finish that is more professional looking than typical water-based ink finishes. The color merges from dark to lighter red and serves as a backdrop to the clear jars holding the bones.   Aligning the exposed and washed out halftone screen to the cyan film positive underneath, which is taped over the printed image on the registration proof. |
 Detail of the finished screen print, Bone Jarring, by Kate Conlon, 22" x 30", 2009.  Four-color separation screen print, Ruthie's Moon Cactus, by Dwight Pogue, 30" x 22", 2011. Several drawings on paper and Mylar were scanned into Photoshop and merged together into one image. They were then separated as CMYK film positives and exposed to coated screens and printed using magenta, yellow, cyan and black water-based halfone inks. Printmaking Revolution provides easy-to-follow steps for students to screen print four-color separation halftones. |