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Screen Printed Fabric

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Here are a few of the fabric pieces that got screen printed at our Screen Printing Party last week. Most of them are mine but one is Sally’s as she left it at my house accidentally.

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This piece is Sally’s – it looks kind of blurry – I hope if you click on it to enlarge it looks better. It’s a piece of linen fabric that was previously dyed green. A deconstructed screen print was screened over the top.

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Here’s a closer view. I think this would make a nice background.

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This piece was previously printed with the green leaves. I screen printed the blue on top of that.

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This piece has been printed twice with a blue school glue screen. The bottom layer is the red layer and then I screened green dye on top of that with a different blue glue screen.

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This gets the ugliest fabric award. It was originally printed on a “gelli” plate, that’s the red/purple layer. Then I used the green dye and the blue glue screen. I was hoping to improve it a bit but not sure it’s any better. I think I need to over dye the entire thing to tone it down a bit.

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Here’s the back of the one above. It is definitely better from the back.

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These are my favorites. These four pieces of fabric were screened over torn paper. I just sprinkled some paper scraps from the shredder on top of the fabric and then screened various colors of dye in several layers over the top. The paper forms a resist as you print.

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Here’s a little closer view. I’m not sure what I’ll do with these fabric pieces yet but I think this last set would make great notebook covers.

 

 

Silk Screening Party

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My local group met today to do some silk screening. We did deconstructed screen printing, printing through screens made with blue school glue, oatmeal printing and scrap paper printing. We also tried screen printing with a screen prepared with watercolor crayons and then used textile medium to screen through the crayons. These were a bit of a disappointment but all the others worked great. I was so into the screen printing that I forgot to take many photos of the process.

These four photos show the deconstructed screens. The one in the top left corner has bubble wrap under it and I’m screening the thickened dye on to the screen. The other three photos are screens that have already dried. We then screened either clear print paste or another color dye through this and the dried dye breaks down differently with each pull.

After I made the screen there was dye left on the bubble wrap so I used it to print on to some sketch book pages.

These four photos above show are printed from the paper lamination screens that I made last week. I used printing ink on to sketch book pages. The pages with a different background color were already painted or printed previously.

These two pieces were printed with the watercolor crayons and textile medium. The one on the left was previously printed with peppers.

The photos above show printing with the blue school glue screen. You can see the screen itself in the middle of the top row of photos. The pink one on the bottom left was previously printed on a gel plate. I’m not sure it was much improved.

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This one was one of Sally’s that had been previously printed with vegetables (red) and then a deconstructed screen in green was done over top. I’ll be interested to see how this one looks when it’s washed.

These are more deconstructed prints, the top row is on paper and the bottom on fabric.

 

Here is Sally mixing up some more print paste with purple dye. On the right you can see how messy it gets, dye and print paste seem to end up everywhere.

 

This piece is one of Louise’s. She had rust dyed a piece of watercolor paper. But she thought it needed more. So we added an oatmeal screen print. The really dark green bits are oatmeal that have soaked up the green dye. The oatmeal acts as a resist on the screen and after it dries, you usually peel off all the oatmeal bits to show what is underneath. Louise hasn’t decided whether she’ll keep the oatmeal or take it off. Can’t wait to see how she develops this further.

These last two are more paper screen printed with the oatmeal resist technique. This is raw oatmeal, in case you were wondering. Sally also printed an entire scarf with this method but I didn’t get a photo. I will have to take more photos once everything has been batched and washed.  We had a wonderful day and I’m looking forward to next month so I can see how everything turned out. I have a few pieces of fabric that I’ll show you later this week when I get them washed out.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend.