Wear What You Make: Screen Printing 101

This instructional screen printing video is intended to go over the basics of photo emulsion screen printing. I do not claim to be an expert by any means. I'm still learning the process and thought this would be a fun way to share some of my knowledge of this form of art-making. Enjoy!

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Howto & Style

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• arts
• crafts
• DIY
• entertainment

[eldeadbeat]

Ive seen a few and they never tell u what kind of light wattage to use and for how long this helped tons thanx again !!!!!!!!!!

[steveweiss33]

@eldeadbeat My pleasure!  Glad it helped!

[sicksketch]

THANK YOU!!

Yay for blick- know where Im going this weekend. One random question, whats that last song in the vid?? xD

[steveweiss33]

@sicksketch "I Love My Shirt" by Donovan. Thanks for watching!

[jmt0791]

Stupid question...did you do this in daylight for demonstration purposes? Wouldn't you normally need to be in a darkroom under safe lights to apply and work with the emulsion?

[steveweiss33]

@jmt0791 Not a stupid question at all. Yes, I did it for demonstration purposes, but as long as you work under dimmed lighting and not leave it out for too long, you can also work like that without any issues. A lot of this stuff is trial and error. If something doesn't work, it won't be a huge deal to make an adjustment.

[AbsoluteSnowboarding]

Hey, thank you so much for the video it helped describe the basics all the other videos out there make it seem really really really hard .... But why I was commenting is because can you screen print the bottom of longboards because I have just started a company and need help putting graphic's on the bottom without heat transfers if anyone can answer this question that would be awesome nice video thanks !

[steveweiss33]

@ghany02 The sun is very unpredictable. I recommend using a light source you can control.

[ghany02]

i hope this question gets answered,,. in burning the image to the screen, Can i also use heat from the sun to burn those images?? thanks ....

[steveweiss33]

@bertsgurl4lyfe Hi there... thanks for the kind words and for watching my video. The "ladder"-like structure I used to prop the light over the screen is custom-made by a friend of mine. I drew up the schematic for him and he built it for me. The hinged screen is actually part of the kit that I bought. Hope this helped!