Introduction to Screen Printing for Illustration
Printing First Colour
A course by Charlotte Farmer , Screen Printer and Illustrator
About the video: Printing First Colour
Overview
“Here I'll show you my prepared screen, and you'll see how to start printing the first colour. ”
In this video lesson Charlotte Farmer addresses the topic: Printing First Colour, 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
“ Printing First Colour Now we'll take our prepared screen and start printing the first colour. You saw me mix the yellow colour, and I thought it will be my first colour, but looking at this screen, I can see the edges on this were a bit crisper than I like because I like to show the imperfections and hand-drawn nature of the way I make my drawings. I think I'll start with the pink. It's good to keep reassessing as you go when you're printing because though you might think it's planned, things always change. By printing the pink first, it means I can then put the yellow on top, which has s...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Screen Printing for Illustration
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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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