Introduction to Screen Printing for Illustration
Materials
A course by Charlotte Farmer , Screen Printer and Illustrator
About the video: Materials
Overview
“What do you need to realize your projects? Let me show you the materials you need to screen print at home. ”
In this video lesson Charlotte Farmer addresses the topic: Materials, 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
“ Materials In this lesson, I'll talk you through the tools you'll need to start screen printing at home. The most important thing you'll need is the screen. When you're printing on paper, you need a screen with a dense mesh. This one is a 90T count. If you're printing on fabric, you'd use a screen with a lower mesh count, which would let more ink through because fabric sucks up the ink. For this one, you need a 90T screen. To make your screen, coat it with this light-sensitive emulsion. To coat the emulsion, you pour it into a trough. Put the ends on the trough. Not getting the ends on pro...”
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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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