This was how the process worked so far: I cut the letters out freehand onto 130gsm paper with hand drawn lines. The letters are all about 13mm tall. I needed the letters to be white and the background black. The original had pencil lines from the guidelines and where I needed a little help on S's and B's and had drawn them letters in pencil first. Rather than erasing all those lines over delicately cut letters, I spraymounted the front of the work and glued it onto black … [Read more...]
Photographic Sceen Printing
This is how screen printing works:Imagine a screen made with fine see-through fabric stretched over very tightly.Take a sheet of paper the size of the screen with one letter, say a "T" cut out.Attach the sheet to the screen,.Lay the screen face down on paper or fabric. Squeeze paint onto the edge of the screen.Using a squeeqee pull the paint through the screen, in exactly the way you'd clean a window.When you pick up the screen (which hinged to the table), there will be a T.(Because the rest of … [Read more...]