Introduction to Screen Printing for Illustration
Screen Printing
A course by Charlotte Farmer , Screen Printer and Illustrator
About the video: Screen Printing
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll give you an overview of what screen printing actually is, where it started, and how it’s been used over the years. You'll also learn the pros and cons of this type of artwork ”
In this video lesson Charlotte Farmer addresses the topic: Screen Printing , which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Screen Printing for Illustration. Learn to make a 4-color screen print illustration using your own stencils, and discover how to scale your designs to fit a variety of stationery products .
Partial transcription of the video
“ Introduction to Screen Printing In this lesson, I'll introduce you to screen printing, its pros and cons, there aren't many cons, and also how you can do it at home. Screen printing is a way of reproducing your work over and over. You use a frame that has a mesh stretched over it, which slides ink through onto the paper. You can control that by using stencils, and we'll see how to make them later on. The great thing about screen printing is you can use many different colours. Screen printing started in China way back. They used it as a way of getting pattern onto fabric. It was mostly use...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Screen Printing for Illustration
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Category
Craft, Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Arts & Crafts, Printing, Screen Printing, Traditional illustration
Charlotte Farmer
A course by Charlotte Farmer
Charlotte Farmer is a British screen printer and illustrator, based near Bath, England. She studied at Saint Martins, where she got a master’s in communication design, specializing in illustration. The screen prints she creates often involve collections of things from snowglobes, pottery figures, or ice creams to tropical birds and animals. She is passionate about collections because of the way they bring together unexpected combinations of objects and characters.
Charlotte has created illustrations for clients including Red Valentino, The Washington Post, Air France, Boden, Waitrose, New York University, Billboard, The Sunday Times Style Magazine, New House Textiles, Clinique, Superdrug, Tatler, Jamie Magazine and Elle. She also designed and created three books for Ilex press: The Hipster Colouring Book, The Passive Aggressive Colouring Book, and The Museum of Me Activity Book.
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