Learning how to Silk Screen Print

The original drawing in the middle and the two prints I got out of it

As a Christmas gift to myself and as a means to gauge if I wanted to embark on an arty side hustle this year I bought myself an introduction to Silk Screen Printing course run by the Leeds Print Workshop.

The course ran for 5 weeks and covered:

• How to prepare a screen for printing
• How to flood and pull in order to print with a screen
• How to use registration acetate and create registration stops
• How to use paper stencils to create silk screen prints
• How to use Photo Emulsion and an exposure unit to create silk screen prints
• Loads of silk screen printing!
• Cleaning screens and removing the emulsion from screens

So for just over a month I’d leave work a little early on Mondays and spend two and half hours learning about the best type of parcel tape to use, how to mix ink and experimenting with all kinds of split fountain gradients.

It was really fun and if you’re interested in printing and live in Yorkshire check out http://leedsprintworkshop.org/workshops-shortcourses/

King of the Monsters

In the last couple of sessions we worked towards creating an edition of prints, using all the skills and…