Introduction to Screen Printing for Illustration
Preparing Your Workspace
A course by Charlotte Farmer , Screen Printer and Illustrator
About the video: Preparing Your Workspace
Overview
“This is my favourite topic to talk about because being a good screen printer requires you to be organized before you start. Therefore, I'll share with you some tips to help you organize everything, so you don’t get in a mess. I'll also teach you to mix colours that won’t dry in your screen.”
In this video lesson Charlotte Farmer addresses the topic: Preparing Your Workspace, 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 Your Workspace In this lesson, I'll show you how to properly set up your workspace. When printing, it's vital to make sure you've got everything you need because you need to move quickly once you've got ink on your screen. The first thing we'll do is put the screen and attach it to these clamps, which is important so that the screen doesn't move while you're printing. Another thing to mention is I've got this piece of MDF on a non-slip mat, which is handy if you can get one. Make sure that they're securely in place. Tighten that one up a bit more. Now, we've got the screen in po...”
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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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