This weekend I took a screen-printing course at the Oregon College of Arts & Crafts. It was a creative two days for my detail driven mind! I am more of a Right sided brain---I enjoy writing, words and concrete evidence. I am not inclined to be super creative. However, this class gave me plenty of uninterrupted time to focus specifically on being creative. I chose to take this class because I am a Graphic Apparel Developer with little background in graphics and my company does a lot of screen-printing at the production level. This course was definitely very rudimentary screen-printing and helped me to understand the process from a very basic and old school method. Although my work reflects projects that are done on automatic presses for the most part, I think it will be really valuable to know how this is done and to have done it myself.
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| my drawings--trying to decide what images I will use on my sceen |
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| the screens |
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| the room where we mixed paint |
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| screen-printing the old school way! Completely by hand |
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| one of my practice screens |
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| Tiffany pressing |
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| Tiffany's awesome watercolor practice round |
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| Briana's practice flowers |
Next up I will post the finished product! We got to make our own screen with our own designs (Tiff made the images for my screen) and create a scarf. Can't wait to share it with you!
2 comments:
That looks so fun! You do so many adventurous things. I am jealous!
Hopefully I'll see you soon!
Take care,
Laura
Totally fun! Everything looks so pretty above. I miss doing this stuff when I was little- I should get ba k into it.
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