Pop Art Screen Printing for Vibrant Portraits
Printing Your Image
A course by M.Tony Peralta , Artist and Creative Director
About the video: Printing Your Image
Overview
“We are finally ready to print the portrait. I’ll teach you how to register the image on the workstation to prepare for the print. Then, I'll show you the proper way to clean the screen. ”
In this video lesson M.Tony Peralta addresses the topic: Printing Your Image, 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
“ Printing the Image Now that we've figured out our little registration master file, it's time to register the image on our printing workstation. Before I do that, I need to tape part of the other side of this screen since we have two images. I will print the background first so I'll tape off part of my mother's image. We're doing this because when you're printing, in case the squeegee moves to that side, you might print this image on the paper. We should be good to go there. Place the hinges on this. Nice and tight. You don't want this to move. I'll take this little master file thing that ...”
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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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