Splatter Printing; A FreeScreen Live Screen Print Technique

[SunshineScreenPrints]

That's a cool technique! 

[defknomes]

what type of ink did you use?!

[waterwhella]

Nice idea! great job..

I've tried it.. but the color just mixed up with my splats..

[TheSyaq]

wat type of paint did u use for e splattering part?

[leychin2]

is this an ordinary textile ink? i tried it using an ordinary ink but it smudges just like regular printing..help

[leychin2]

is this an ordinary textile ink?

[248creative]

BTW - to the person who asked earlier, the music is Tao Groove

[248creative]

taogroove (dot) com

[chrama1]

I would imagine you could only do a few passes before the ink gets to "gray/dark"?? The look great though.

[248creative]

@chrama1 actually, because of how viscous plastisol ink is, it takes longer than you'd think to "mud up" to a dull brown (the eventual destination for most ink mixes). I would say that you can run a good 20-30 shirts before you have to pull out whatever ink is in the screen. By that time it's pretty minimal, so the loss is low.

Plus, you have all the gradations of color on the way to mud, which are usually very cool and unique (think marbly).

[WeeboPrints90]

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[Spankulata]

Im going to try this at school, I have some designs that would go well with that process. My only concern is that the ink is pretty much ruined unless you make a cool color mixing it.

[248creative]

@Spankulata if you're screen printing as a student or as a hobby, yes you use more ink this way. We consistently print, and the color constantly changes as we go, so we usually just finish a session with a brown as the result. We store it and use it in future projects that don't require color matching. Part of the process is the uniqueness of the prints, color goes with that.

[southbay13thst]

ive done this since 1985 used a heat gun to dry the garments we would used glown in the dark and glitter inks with bascic plastisols some lasted years its fun busting out one of a kind stuff now i have 4000sq ft facility with over 3000 accounts....

[cwilbr]

I sometimes do that to create a marble-look or when using a variety of shimmer inks you can make a very nice shaded rainbow of colours.

[248creative]

You're right, shimmer is a great additive for this kind of process. I usually try to drop a little shimmer into nearly everything, it adds to the effect. You just have to make sure that your screen mesh is large enough to allow for the shimmer particles to pass.

[cwilbr]

61TW or 61TY are the highest mesh i'd use for my shimmers. Discharge is a different story though...

[CatspitProductions]

Pretty cool home brew. Nice work. In screen printing you are doing what we would call a split fountain. There are several ways of doing this with different results. Cool video!

[248creative]

Yes, we've heard it called a few things, split fountain, a marble drop and a shutter blend. Because we usually do it in a live environment, we use the word "splatter" to describe it, as that's what people coming up to us say... "do that splattery thing" lol

[zicassol3s]

thats hot keep it up

[uniquetinimonity]

hey, i am just wondering. what are the materials needed here? btw, what specific materials i mean? like what paint? acrylic? or water color? lolc:

[248creative]

we're using plastisol inks here, the conventional screen print decorating ink. They're very versatile and they never dry out, though you need to cure the prints with heat when you're done with them. Water based inks don't work too well for this style of printing, they don't have the opacity to pop right... at least to me.

[mushroomhead3]

thats cool, ive only ever done this by accident

[olecm1]

thats dope!!!!

how much does all that material cost?

[248creative]

The material isn't too expensive, but the equipment (namely the flash cure unit) can run high, from $500-1000 depending on what you get. Plus, to make screens you need to drop about $1000. You can also DIY a screen exposure unit with a halogen work light with the UV filter removed. We used that for a while... melts transparencies tho.

[248creative]

Not really, it comes out in very fine strands if you do it right, ends up just staying resident for futher printing anyway. We usually only do it when we're freescreening.

Ink's cheap anyway.

[XtremeInkz]

Lot of wasted ink.

[WoodlandRavah]

The key in that instance is to produce two kinds of product in terms of desigs 1 minimalistic in this case and 2 complex like a tye dye with a crap ton of screen printings...

[248creative]

It's true, this type of print doesn't work on all kinds of designs. If you have too much fine line work, it gets lost. We bear that in mind when we do art for live printing... we try to keep the lines bold and our artwork is always single color. You can be crafty with halftones though and "steal" a few fake gradients :)

[Rasbudzz]

nice i like the style

[iluvmysis4325]

really cool ( lol i like the music too )

[ErikaBaby]

That's a really good technique to keep in mind

[248creative]

Actually, you can thin the ink out. We add curable reducer to our splatter inks. It makes them nice and slippy. It depends on the colors though. Red is always a little too thick (I assume because it contains the most pigment of any color) and black is always a little too thin.

And it's true, this style isn't really for mass runs, only for our freescreening events, which produce unique garments to customer spec each time.

[FutureLaugh]

i wish you could thin the ink out, make it more splattery- but in any case a really cool effect! might be tough on large runs but still every shirt is unique

[248creative]

Actually, It is messy... we now use syringes instead... we get more control.

Meat marinade injectors actually... from the dollar store. :)

[OTS72]

I love the idea every shirt is 'unique' kinda, but here is an idea you might want to try using a ketchup bottle for the for the driped on ink, it should be a bit less messy