Screened!

While at Century 21 with my ol' friend RRPC, I found this tank from Legatte. It had sequins on it, but the silk screen design was on top of the sequins. How clever. Thinking of ways to use this new piece of information...

Foray into Screen Printing

Last week, I took a screen printing 101 class at the Gowanus Print Lab. I have wanted to get into screen printing for a while, and low and behold - a Groupon of all things presented itself last June. 

Yes, I took an art class because of Groupon. And I hadn't taken the class 6 months after I purchased the damn thing. (I know, they're expecting you to let those things expire so they can cash in on you, but I'm so anal about my money I was able to take the last class before it expired.) 

Everyone in this particular session was a graphic designer (no surprise) and everyone had brought something to print. I was the only person, out of 10 or so who hadn't brought anything and didn't even have anything in mind. Ha! Talk about funny. Who goes to a print class unprepared, without an idea of what to print? This girl!

They gave me transparencies and black paint markers and said have fun! I had to think quickly. I looked through the transparency to the oak table it was lying on. Ah-ha! Texture from the wood table. Can't get much better than that. 

I was going to There's something that's reminiscent of Charlie Brown in this shirt.

I wanted to see what would happen around the collar. There's a little bit of ghosting, but I found it interesting.

I would highly suggest this class for any beginner and novice. My teacher, Zeb, was especially cool and soooooo laid back. Everyone was so helpful and knowledgeable. The main reason I wanted to take this is to learn how to print on my weavings, and when I asked about that he had several different tactics as to how I to go about it. Very knowledgeable people.

And as for my next printing project, I think I might try hand towels!