Hey...thanks for the barrier cream tip...I havn't used the product yet "because my boss is cheap" but your tip lead me to trying regular old hand lotion...It made a bigggggg difference...now i can do demount/remounts and clean up with absolutely no fuss at all...thanx \m/
@ChateauOfADoubt Creating the images on the computer or even drawing them on paper and then using emulsion on the screen. Then you expose the image using UV lights for like 7-90 minutes depending on the strength of lights (trial and error) All of this can be done by someone who doesn't have heavy equipment, there are plans all over the place for homemade exposure units.
I worked in a screen printing shop for like 8 months as the head artist and was around screen printing everyday.lol
@TheRockinator09 you just started following me on twitter? you've missed my last weeks worth of tweets trying to be able to use photoemulsion at home and failing at it. I'm currently trying to strip portions of it off and fill it back in with watersol. Where was this print shop you were working at?
@ChateauOfADoubt XD, Hinesville, Ga home of the 3rd Infantry Division.
hmmmm, are you putting too much on there? and you have to make sure that it is completely dark where you put the emulsion on the screens, have like a red light or something that will work, but as soon as you coat the screens they have to stay in a very dark room (we used an old bathroom and put a heating unit in there so that they would cure faster.
@TheRockinator09 I do but it's a private sort of thing. I'm definitely aware of the causes of my problems, but it's just caused way more hassle than it has saved time. And today the water froze in my hose outside so I couldn't even spray my screen out because I don't have an inside set up.
@ChateauOfADoubt When you get used to it, thats when it gets easier, its something new to you so it will be hard at first but i'm sure that you'll get the hang of it.lol and I understand.
Haven't had a chance to watch alot of ur videos, where u from?
@TheRockinator09 if you ever get the notion -- check out my With Hands project. I think somewhere in there is articulated exactly why I do the things I do the way I do them ;D
@ChateauOfADoubt lol very cryptic xD I like your style both ur art and ur videos, from what i can tell you have a very kewl personality and you are very funny.lol
@TheRockinator09 ALSO most of the things I print are like 9 layers of different values with very tight registration, using photoemulsion would take away the painterly feel and cause undue stress. I don't know. We had a fancy dark room / vacuum table set up when I was in school, but even then I rarely used it.
This was freaking amazing. I had no idea what you were talking about at first, but watching the actual printing process was way cool...so labor and time intensive.
'block-out' was another term I had trouble with at first, but I figured it out by the end.
Similarly, I had trouble with 'watersol'. I thought it was 'water salt'... but this is 'sol' as in 'solvent', right? Or does it mean that it's water soluble?
Watersol as in water-soluble. If you google "pin and tab" you will have much better luck finding the registration doohickeys than googling "tab and peg"
That was fascinating! It reminded me so much of a friend I used to have that was an artist and a screenprinter. He was terrically talented. I miss him, but thinking about him makes me smile, so thanks for that.
I wish I understood more of your terminology. I've never taken an art class in my life, and really know nothing about it, except what I like, as the Monty Python skit goes. One day, maybe when my kids are older, I'm going to take a class. Think I'll start with textiles, though.
if you remember which terms were confusing, please let me know. I didn't want to make the video longer by explaining too many things, but I'm sure you aren't the only one with those questions.
Oh, I think it was mostly the names of things -- paints, liquidy art supplies, and the like -- I'll re-watch and try to catch specifics of the art-related 'jargon'.
'registration', in this context. I get it, I think. Qualities of the print, yes? And the act of making the print, itself?
'mat board, met board?' Is that matting like one would see between, say, a painting and its frame? - Oh, wait! Found it at 6:44 - matte board.
'brown tape' Hmmm... I've seen beige masking tape; and green, easily-removed painters' tape. Is the brown tape papery on the outside, like packing tape I'd get from the butcher?
I hate how easy it is to accidentally click remove :/
Registration is how things line up. I want my screen and my paper to be in the same place each time so that I don't print the boy's hair somewhere other than on the boy's head.
The brown tape is brown paper with glue on the back. I've seen people use duct tape for this, but I feel like this paper tape with polyurethane is a little more permanent.
I never quite understood the continued use of Letter Pressing or Screen Printing, considering that we now have computers to recreate the same effects.
I don't know. I still don't understand the process much. Must be the hands-on feel that makes the turnout more satisfying. I think my birth father used these techniques to make his zines. He was the Alan Lastufka of New Hampshire.
That's really cool about your father. I would love to see some of his old printed zines, if you have access to them.
It is absolutely the hands-on feel, and you can screen print on any relatively flat surface, it doesn't have to fit through a computer. And I would argue with your one point by agreeing with your other point, computers don't create the same effect, because of the physicality.
@ChateauOfADoubt Ah. Maybe I'm just being so inquisitive about physically doing the hard work because I don't have the money to be physically creative. Creatively, all I have is my computer. I'm sure that the ink in the long run would be cheaper if you screen print manually as opposed to buying ink cartridges.
precisely. The computer also requires electricity, while screen printing does not. I'm not saying that everyone should be screen printing, but in terms of not being dependent on the grid, it is a great way to make multiples of things, among other benefits ;)
@ChateauOfADoubt Hmmm.. Etsy.. Not a bad idea. I'll talk to him about it.
Know what's REALLY convenient about Screen printing? Should Armageddon hit and computers no longer work, Information can still be passed along old-school.
My father used to produce a Zine called Color Wheel. The old ones looked like the Zines that Alan distributed. The later published editions were more financed and had a more professional look. I have one copy of the old editions and two of the new ones. He hasn't published one in two years, but I'm trying to convince him to make a new one. If he does, I'll see about selling some copies via the internet. He never made money off it, only broke even and had a few dollars to buy a coffee afterward.
no, you didn't! That's so cool! I just got excited when I noticed that Alan had illustrated some Microcosm something or other that I happened to have. I've never actually seen a copy of Fall of Autumn.
My mind! It's blown! Did you discard the ones in which you said "well, that's not the best"?! I guess I kind of assumed that it would turn out perfectly every time? Or am I mixing something up here. This art form is so, very interesting! When you added the black I seriously got so impressed at the fact that it was the shadow of the text, yet you put it on after the white ink? Great video, Emily!!!
I didn't use any white ink, all of the white is just the paper color. I think what happened was I didn't get all the block-out off my screen from the last time, and it left a kind of "noise" in what would otherwise be a solid area. They all came out kind of junky. I just couldn't be bothered to do anything about it :/
My original intent was just to help people understand how it works, but it is so hard for me to do that without giving a mini screen printing lesson :)
I hope it made sense, I've shown people this in person, and then let them try it on their own, and they've told me they didn't really get it until they did it.
Quite a few years ago, this girl Leeny said "you should make a stencil of me, I'm going to be famous someday" and for some reason, I did. Now we're good friends....though I don't generally field such suggestions ;)
Nice work,see this why I keep telling people about you and your creativity.(not just online,but as well in person.) I must this has been very informative and maybe try it soon,since I have a art freak for a wife and in laws. Already on the edge for your next masterpiece!
no problem! I started in high school wanting to make shirts, and iron-on wasn't legitimate enough. I got a little speedball kit, and made some stuff, but it was nearly impossible to remove the block-out. When I took a tour of my school of choice, I was delighted to see the giant print studio there.
So, some of my ink is left-over from my time there, and some I bought from the places listed in the doobilydoo. I've also purchased several screens, but many many many screen have been given to me by people who find them. This goes for a lot of my art & craft supplies.
Hey...thanks for the barrier cream tip...I havn't used the product yet "because my boss is cheap" but your tip lead me to trying regular old hand lotion...It made a bigggggg difference...now i can do demount/remounts and clean up with absolutely no fuss at all...thanx \m/
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Hahaha! Brilliant. Much as I'd love to try this, I just don't have the artistic abilities. I love how your little bike boy turned out!
marymc 10 months ago
@marymc more important than having the artistic abilities is having the supplies.
ChateauOfADoubt 10 months ago
lol WOW, you do a very difficult type of screen printing XD
TheRockinator09 1 year ago
@TheRockinator09 wait --- there is an easier type??!?
ChateauOfADoubt 1 year ago
@ChateauOfADoubt lol XD I should have said "way" instead of type
I admit I like your old fashion way to do it
TheRockinator09 1 year ago
@TheRockinator09 I'm really confused -- what is this "easier" way you a referring to?
ChateauOfADoubt 1 year ago
@ChateauOfADoubt Creating the images on the computer or even drawing them on paper and then using emulsion on the screen. Then you expose the image using UV lights for like 7-90 minutes depending on the strength of lights (trial and error) All of this can be done by someone who doesn't have heavy equipment, there are plans all over the place for homemade exposure units.
I worked in a screen printing shop for like 8 months as the head artist and was around screen printing everyday.lol
TheRockinator09 1 year ago
@TheRockinator09 you just started following me on twitter? you've missed my last weeks worth of tweets trying to be able to use photoemulsion at home and failing at it. I'm currently trying to strip portions of it off and fill it back in with watersol. Where was this print shop you were working at?
ChateauOfADoubt 1 year ago
@ChateauOfADoubt XD, Hinesville, Ga home of the 3rd Infantry Division.
hmmmm, are you putting too much on there? and you have to make sure that it is completely dark where you put the emulsion on the screens, have like a red light or something that will work, but as soon as you coat the screens they have to stay in a very dark room (we used an old bathroom and put a heating unit in there so that they would cure faster.
Do you have a facebook?
TheRockinator09 1 year ago
@TheRockinator09 I do but it's a private sort of thing. I'm definitely aware of the causes of my problems, but it's just caused way more hassle than it has saved time. And today the water froze in my hose outside so I couldn't even spray my screen out because I don't have an inside set up.
ChateauOfADoubt 1 year ago
@ChateauOfADoubt When you get used to it, thats when it gets easier, its something new to you so it will be hard at first but i'm sure that you'll get the hang of it.lol and I understand.
Haven't had a chance to watch alot of ur videos, where u from?
TheRockinator09 1 year ago
@TheRockinator09 upstate New York.
ChateauOfADoubt 1 year ago
@ChateauOfADoubt Thats kewl, I'm from coastal Georgia -__- more boring then you could comprehend XD
Don't stress to much on it, do what works for you, just shocked at the way you do thinks, shocked in a good way, very kewl.
TheRockinator09 1 year ago
@TheRockinator09 if you ever get the notion -- check out my With Hands project. I think somewhere in there is articulated exactly why I do the things I do the way I do them ;D
ChateauOfADoubt 1 year ago
@ChateauOfADoubt lol very cryptic xD I like your style both ur art and ur videos, from what i can tell you have a very kewl personality and you are very funny.lol
TheRockinator09 1 year ago
@ChateauOfADoubt I am too.
yankees1cotton 11 months ago
@TheRockinator09 ALSO most of the things I print are like 9 layers of different values with very tight registration, using photoemulsion would take away the painterly feel and cause undue stress. I don't know. We had a fancy dark room / vacuum table set up when I was in school, but even then I rarely used it.
ChateauOfADoubt 1 year ago
Have I mentioned, I love this
LunaSea80 1 year ago
@LunaSea80 I'm not sure -- have you?
anyway -- thanks!
ChateauOfADoubt 1 year ago
Bravo!
Excellent works!
Do you use water based ink or PVC inks?
corleone50 1 year ago
@corleone50 I used oil based inks, mostly because that was how I was trained in college.
ChateauOfADoubt 1 year ago
@ChateauOfADoubt
I mostlu use PVC inks.
Anyway, excellent works. Just goin' on!
corleone50 1 year ago
This was freaking amazing. I had no idea what you were talking about at first, but watching the actual printing process was way cool...so labor and time intensive.
keeporjot 2 years ago
etc... and pegs'?
'block-out' was another term I had trouble with at first, but I figured it out by the end.
Similarly, I had trouble with 'watersol'. I thought it was 'water salt'... but this is 'sol' as in 'solvent', right? Or does it mean that it's water soluble?
P.S. Loved the guitar fretboard simile!
loquaciouskook 2 years ago
Watersol as in water-soluble. If you google "pin and tab" you will have much better luck finding the registration doohickeys than googling "tab and peg"
ChateauOfADoubt 2 years ago
Thank you!
loquaciouskook 2 years ago
That was fascinating! It reminded me so much of a friend I used to have that was an artist and a screenprinter. He was terrically talented. I miss him, but thinking about him makes me smile, so thanks for that.
I wish I understood more of your terminology. I've never taken an art class in my life, and really know nothing about it, except what I like, as the Monty Python skit goes. One day, maybe when my kids are older, I'm going to take a class. Think I'll start with textiles, though.
loquaciouskook 2 years ago
if you remember which terms were confusing, please let me know. I didn't want to make the video longer by explaining too many things, but I'm sure you aren't the only one with those questions.
ChateauOfADoubt 2 years ago
Oh, I think it was mostly the names of things -- paints, liquidy art supplies, and the like -- I'll re-watch and try to catch specifics of the art-related 'jargon'.
loquaciouskook 2 years ago
you said:Ok, I've re-watched.
'registration', in this context. I get it, I think. Qualities of the print, yes? And the act of making the print, itself?
'mat board, met board?' Is that matting like one would see between, say, a painting and its frame? - Oh, wait! Found it at 6:44 - matte board.
'brown tape' Hmmm... I've seen beige masking tape; and green, easily-removed painters' tape. Is the brown tape papery on the outside, like packing tape I'd get from the butcher?
Where do you get your 'tabs
ChateauOfADoubt 2 years ago
I hate how easy it is to accidentally click remove :/
Registration is how things line up. I want my screen and my paper to be in the same place each time so that I don't print the boy's hair somewhere other than on the boy's head.
The brown tape is brown paper with glue on the back. I've seen people use duct tape for this, but I feel like this paper tape with polyurethane is a little more permanent.
ChateauOfADoubt 2 years ago
I actually found this really entertaining. It's a true art that not many people can do well. I applaud you.
SaithJC 2 years ago
This was great, I'm going to link it to my artist friend because I'll never have the patience for this.
genericfirstname 2 years ago
I never quite understood the continued use of Letter Pressing or Screen Printing, considering that we now have computers to recreate the same effects.
I don't know. I still don't understand the process much. Must be the hands-on feel that makes the turnout more satisfying. I think my birth father used these techniques to make his zines. He was the Alan Lastufka of New Hampshire.
zottepark 2 years ago
That's really cool about your father. I would love to see some of his old printed zines, if you have access to them.
It is absolutely the hands-on feel, and you can screen print on any relatively flat surface, it doesn't have to fit through a computer. And I would argue with your one point by agreeing with your other point, computers don't create the same effect, because of the physicality.
ChateauOfADoubt 2 years ago
also see: my grad school thesis.
Hahahaha, in one youtube comment you've unleashed the fury that is my last four semesters of research, art making, thinking, and writing ;)
ChateauOfADoubt 2 years ago
*computer printer
ChateauOfADoubt 2 years ago
@ChateauOfADoubt Ah. Maybe I'm just being so inquisitive about physically doing the hard work because I don't have the money to be physically creative. Creatively, all I have is my computer. I'm sure that the ink in the long run would be cheaper if you screen print manually as opposed to buying ink cartridges.
zottepark 2 years ago
precisely. The computer also requires electricity, while screen printing does not. I'm not saying that everyone should be screen printing, but in terms of not being dependent on the grid, it is a great way to make multiples of things, among other benefits ;)
ChateauOfADoubt 2 years ago
@ChateauOfADoubt Hmmm.. Etsy.. Not a bad idea. I'll talk to him about it.
Know what's REALLY convenient about Screen printing? Should Armageddon hit and computers no longer work, Information can still be passed along old-school.
zottepark 2 years ago
My father used to produce a Zine called Color Wheel. The old ones looked like the Zines that Alan distributed. The later published editions were more financed and had a more professional look. I have one copy of the old editions and two of the new ones. He hasn't published one in two years, but I'm trying to convince him to make a new one. If he does, I'll see about selling some copies via the internet. He never made money off it, only broke even and had a few dollars to buy a coffee afterward.
zottepark 2 years ago
I would buy one!
He could sell 'em on Etsy if he doesn't already have some sort of online marketplace set up. Two years wasn't that long ago.
ChateauOfADoubt 2 years ago
@ChateauOfADoubt
Have I told you that he used to receive the Fall of Autumn zines? When I found out I was so excited. Small world.
zottepark 2 years ago
no, you didn't! That's so cool! I just got excited when I noticed that Alan had illustrated some Microcosm something or other that I happened to have. I've never actually seen a copy of Fall of Autumn.
ChateauOfADoubt 2 years ago
you're a really great video maker. you must put a lot of time and effort into these videos.
well done.
tabloidjunk 2 years ago
thank you so much! that means a lot.
ChateauOfADoubt 2 years ago
Wow, very cool! I've never seen someone screen print like that before.
Totally glad that I found your channel through your video response to wheezywaiter and subscribed to you a few days ago. (:
Not like you needed to know that... I swear I'm not some creepy stalker. Lol.
homelessxcat 2 years ago
I actually really appreciate knowing that :) Thanks for telling me!
I'm a 'statistics' / insight / google analytics-aholic.
ChateauOfADoubt 2 years ago
My mind! It's blown! Did you discard the ones in which you said "well, that's not the best"?! I guess I kind of assumed that it would turn out perfectly every time? Or am I mixing something up here. This art form is so, very interesting! When you added the black I seriously got so impressed at the fact that it was the shadow of the text, yet you put it on after the white ink? Great video, Emily!!!
emmfan09 2 years ago
I didn't use any white ink, all of the white is just the paper color. I think what happened was I didn't get all the block-out off my screen from the last time, and it left a kind of "noise" in what would otherwise be a solid area. They all came out kind of junky. I just couldn't be bothered to do anything about it :/
ChateauOfADoubt 2 years ago
Very cool. This is something I would love to try, but I lack the space/time/patience to do it. Perhaps after I get my own place. We'll see.
Still this was cool to see. I'm certainly more a person who needs to see things to understand them.
-Sara
CleverestWitch2188 2 years ago
I dont want to do this at this time in my life but you made i loo so very interesting that i am your new biggest fan
SPRINKLES
PalmOliveSoap 2 years ago
haha, thank you so much!
My original intent was just to help people understand how it works, but it is so hard for me to do that without giving a mini screen printing lesson :)
ChateauOfADoubt 2 years ago
one thing is for sure i compleely understand the process of how it is done now all i would need is the practica! good to go, YAY!!!
you are so sweet your mesmorizing *Spell check*
SPRINKLES
PalmOliveSoap 2 years ago
very cool to see this process.
splicegrrl 2 years ago
I hope it made sense, I've shown people this in person, and then let them try it on their own, and they've told me they didn't really get it until they did it.
ChateauOfADoubt 2 years ago
you should totally screen print me! your angles and cut shots are always awesome!
Justtubed 2 years ago
haha, thank you!
Quite a few years ago, this girl Leeny said "you should make a stencil of me, I'm going to be famous someday" and for some reason, I did. Now we're good friends....though I don't generally field such suggestions ;)
ChateauOfADoubt 2 years ago
Nice work,see this why I keep telling people about you and your creativity.(not just online,but as well in person.) I must this has been very informative and maybe try it soon,since I have a art freak for a wife and in laws. Already on the edge for your next masterpiece!
Myfkduplilworld 2 years ago 3
Aw, thanks!
as a screen printer and art teacher, I would be happy to field any questions that arise if you do try your hand at it.
ChateauOfADoubt 2 years ago
Thanks so much, I'm always curious to learn about more techniques, how did you end up with all these amazing skills and supplies?
earlgreytempest 2 years ago 3
no problem! I started in high school wanting to make shirts, and iron-on wasn't legitimate enough. I got a little speedball kit, and made some stuff, but it was nearly impossible to remove the block-out. When I took a tour of my school of choice, I was delighted to see the giant print studio there.
ChateauOfADoubt 2 years ago
So, some of my ink is left-over from my time there, and some I bought from the places listed in the doobilydoo. I've also purchased several screens, but many many many screen have been given to me by people who find them. This goes for a lot of my art & craft supplies.
ChateauOfADoubt 2 years ago
and, of course, I honed my Screen Printing skills as it was my area of concentration during undergrad.
ChateauOfADoubt 2 years ago