On Wednesday, we had a workshop with Annie to give us a taste of paper silk screening. I have done silk screen with the exposure/vacuum mechanism before, but I have never done it this way. However, with the laser cutter, it seems quite plausible.
What I love about silk-screening like this in addition to printing from a regular printer is that the silk screen can go anywhere you put it–up on a wall, on a fishtank, etc, and that you can use it so many times.
I also love the accidents and the physicality of the process. The layering can produce some really interesting, unexpected results.
For the purposes of this session, we played with the likeness of R2D2, which works quite well as he is quite 2 toned. Getting more subtle grays with one print seems to be a bit more of a difficult task that would involve a fair amount of thinking and planning according to how you make a stencil.
I am excited to explore different experiments when registration isn’t perfect between print layers. Too, I am excited about the moving image possibilities of making multiples.
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