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Project #4: Silk Screen Printing 

This project here is a screen print, where we first individually all made an original tee shirt design, which could have text and images. We then all grouped up, with 5 or 6 to a group, and combined all of the ideas that every one wanted to use, and then transferred the design to a transparency film, with each color on a different sheet. We coated a screen for a window with photo emulsion, which proved to be a difficult process. We then "burned" it onto the screen using a light rig and positioning the transparency on the screen to burn the pattern on. We waited six minutes and the pattern was burned completely on. We used three different colors so we repeated this process three times. We then washed off the spots of emulsion left over with cool water, which took a particularly long time until we could see through the areas we wanted ink to appear in. We then used ink to spread and press the pattern into shirts or posters.

I chose to  make a poster since I felt it would be a more cute design, as I felt the design we made looked like a sort of demonic Tony the Tiger, So I chose the joke name of "purr-gatory puffs" and made a faux cereal label. 

Design on transparency film. All 3 layers are on top of each other. 

Photos of the long but worthy process of getting the screen ready to print!

Our test run with the ink! The first two layers are visible here. 

Our test run with the ink completed! 

My own finished project completely colored in. 

The ink we used for this project, which was water soluble and fabric safe. 

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