Pop Art Screen Printing for Vibrant Portraits
Materials
A course by M.Tony Peralta , Artist and Creative Director
About the video: Materials
Overview
“In this lesson, I will go over the materials you will need for this course.”
In this video lesson M.Tony Peralta addresses the topic: Materials, which is part of the Domestika online course: Pop Art Screen Printing for Vibrant Portraits. Discover fundamental screen printing techniques to create “pop arte” style portraits inspired by New York and Latino culture.
Partial transcription of the video
“So I just went over some of my influences and in this lesson we're gonna go over some materials. We're going to need a screen for this project. I suggest something around the lines of 175 to 200 mesh count. And the reason why we need that kind of mesh count is because we're working with halftones and like small in the dot patterns. We'll also need a squeegee. Now the squeegee, there's a lot of different size squeegees. but you wanna make sure you have a squeegee that is a little bit bigger than the image that you're printing. Right. We're going to need transparency. to print out your image....”
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Course summary for: Pop Art Screen Printing for Vibrant Portraits
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Arts & Crafts, Screen Printing
M.Tony Peralta
A course by M.Tony Peralta
M.Tony Peralta is a contemporary artist and creative director who was born and raised in New York City. He first started drawing at school and produced his first run of t-shirts with the savings from his part-time job at just 17 years old. He later went on to complete a bachelor’s degree in media arts at Long Island University, focusing on graphic design, photography, and film. After graduating, he became the creative director of a boutique marketing company but, driven by a desire to create something in a non-digital space, M.Tony began teaching himself screen printing and enrolled in a screen printing class at the School of Visual Arts.
Since then, he’s had his work shown at museums and featured in The New York Times. He’s collaborated with clients including Nike, Bleacher Report, and Presidente Beer. He also designed his own sneakers for Adidas and currently runs his own indie brand called The Peralta Project where he creates artwork that represents his culture and upbringing.
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