Introduction to Screen Printing for Illustration
Preparing the Screen
A course by Charlotte Farmer , Screen Printer and Illustrator
About the video: Preparing the Screen
Overview
“Now I'll show you how to prepare the screen for exposure, ready for printing! ”
In this video lesson Charlotte Farmer addresses the topic: Preparing the Screen, 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
“ Preparing the Screen In this lesson, we'll get hands-on and start preparing our screen ready to print. It may get a bit messy, so I recommend wearing an apron. We'll be coating the screen with a light-sensitive emulsion. When you buy this, it might need mixing, so read the instructions of whichever brand you buy. Be very careful because it gets messy. The chemicals aren't the nicest, so go steady. In this part of the process, make sure you're moving quickly as this is light-sensitive and it will react to light when it's out in the open. Firstly, we'll get the trough ready for the emulsion...”
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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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