Screen Printing on Paper

Graphic designers Bea and Albert are better known as Barba—a creative studio and manual screen printing workshop specializing in printing on paper. In addition to designing, they love nothing more than endlessly researching and experimenting with printing.

In this online course, learn what screen printing is, how it works, and how to set up your own home workshop, as well as all the materials and tools you need to get started. Explore this creative technique to get a variety of different results and see how to correctly prepare your design for screen printing!

Your teachers start the course by telling you more about their work and biggest influences.

Moving on, look at how to assemble a workspace then all the materials and utensils needed to screen print. Bea and Albert show you some of the different possibilities offered by the technique, then take you through your design creation and preparing the color palette and the screen.

Wrap up the course by printing your design in two colors on paper for the final exercise, then clean the tools and learn how to dry your finished work.

Make your own screen print on paper: an A4 poster in two colors with an inspiring phrase to liven up your walls.

Anyone interested in printing techniques and who likes to work with their hands.

You don't need any previous screen-printing experience to take this course. If you want to set up your own workshop, you'll need a space in which to do so, as well as the materials required to work on the technique, which your teachers explain throughout the course.