delta print

[Chris Carlson]

i'm taking a silk screen course at the local community college.. here's my last print..

at this point in the class, we weren't allowed to use photo emulsion, which has proven great at teaching other methods, since i only came into it wanting to learn the photo stuff. for this print i still used a picture, but i traced it and hand drew the layers...

this project was a word association and my word was "release".. it works in many ways for me..

http://www.flickr.com/photos/carlson13/sets/72157622845279738/

[Adapt]

That looks tight, especially considering you did it by hand. Screenprinting is a neat process. It's important to keep learning skills like this, it closes the gap between the consumer-product disconnect. My girlfriend screenprints all our boxes and bags for holiday ornaments. She mixes the paint and it looks marbled when she applies it, very neat stuff.

Keep us posted on your progress!

[dorkeedude]

Lane Community College?

[Chris Carlson]

yup, lane.. its been great, but very time consuming.. the term is almost over, time to decide if i keep going or not.. i didnt think i would ever go back to school, but who knows.. i might start taking graphic design courses.. its so different now that i'm old and married.. i'm a much better student now..

[RamblezMarblez]

Nice. I like the use of the empty space.

[dorkeedude]

I'm taking the Auto Body corse at Lane!

[Chris Carlson]

nice, my room is attached to the airplane building.. if you wanted to see this this print, or any of the rest of the class, they're all hangin in the art building next door..

i love the pontiac with the steeler paint job and the red and white monte carlo!!!

[Icarus]

Screen printing is a great thing to get into. I supported myself for quite a while just making t-shirts and buttons. The t-shirts were at first all done off a shitty little home-built one color press, and there was a lot of trial and error before I made anything sellable, but once I did, man, you can do well. I've never done the cut stencil thing, I've only done photo-emulsion (wait til you try the emulsion sheets, those take 90% of the pain in the ass out of coating screens out of the equation), but I have amd respect for anyone who can do a decent cut stencil.

Since you took a class at a college, this book may not benefit you as much, but to anyone else interested in getting into screen printing, pick up "How to print t-shirts for fun and profit" by Scott and Pat Fresener (it may be Fresner). It's worth it's weight in gold. I know Amazon takes forever to get it in, but I get all of my screen printing supplies from Valley Litho (valleylitho.com) in Rice Lake, WI, and they carry it. The really cool thing about it is, it includes plans for building jsut about anything you would need to start a small shop (one color press, four color press, light box, vacuum box, I think it even tells you how to build your own flash cure unit).

Also, one other note, if you're doing plastisol printing, check out franmar products for your shop cleanup needs. They're the same price (and slightly better working) than Ulano and other clean up products, but instead of being made of petroleum distillates, they're made of corn and soybean oil. Their emulsion remover is some of the best I've ever used, and while I still trty not to breath them as a matter of habit, I've never gotten lightheaded or felt woozy when using them, which was definitely a problem with normal cleanup products.

Sorry for rambling.

Great looking work by the way.

[Chris Carlson]

word! thanks for the tips.. i have a few books, and plan to set up at home soon.. i have been stockpiling some supplies.. i'm fighting over building a press, or buying an inexpensive one from silkscreensupplies.com which is in vancouver,WA.

right now, we just print on a board..no clamps, very rudimentary, but i figure its a great way to learn...

now i really gotta learn photoshop..

[dorkeedude]

Photoshop will help alot! I'll head over to the art building tomorow to check them out! The sad part about most of the cars out there is the school owns them, so they arnt aloud to sell them, and they go to the scrap yard!

[dorkeedude]

Wow they have alot of good art up right now! yours included!