Print Workshop: Hand-Printing Techniques and Truly Original Projects
Christine Schmidt
Language: English
Pages: 176
ISBN: 0307586545
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
This is a book for low budgets and high ambition. Read it and you will learn how to put images of things onto other things. You will start by rolling up your sleeves. Your shirt will be stained anyways. At some point, you will harness the power of the sun.
Go ahead, look inside. You will see that you do not need a fancy studio to print a T-shirt or a picnic blanket. There is no specialized machine required to print anything you want in any room you want. A mural, a dartboard, a deck of cards, these are all possible.
In a week or a month, you will wake up to find you know words like acetate and substrate. You will be comfortable talking about ink and shopping at military supply stores. Perhaps most important of all, you will be printing images of things onto other things.
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Surface. A tiny, delicate motif would be better printed on stationery where it can be examined up close, not on a giant wall where it would be lost. And it would take you a million years. So when selecting an image for printing, consider the size of the image and what you want to print it on (the substrate). Each printing process has its advantages and limitations, and I can help you see many of those. This book is intended to inspire you to create your own projects. PRINTING PROCESS.
Simple Silhouettes Before photography was widely available, silhouette portraits were a quick and inexpensive way to get your headshot. Ornate profiles in black paper were the party trick of eighteenth-century Europe. At grand balls trained artists would carefully capture the contours of aristocrats in their towering wigs by tracing their shadow onto paper and cutting it out. In this project we use photography, which ironically made the “shadow pictures” obsolete, to create our own.
The frame like a drum. 7. With a thin flat brush, apply Mod Podge around the outlines of the design, and then fill in the small spaces. With a larger brush, fill in the area between the design and the interior line of the frame. Remove the fabric from the frame. 8. Repeat steps 5–7 with the B fabric, filling in the area around the design. 9. Set aside to dry for 24 hours. You can speed up the process with a hair dryer, but make sure you don’t get the fabric too hot—it can melt! 10. Hold.
Care to pull the clipped corners taut. 14. Repeat steps 2–13 with the larger acetate and fiberboard. 15. Grab 2 pals and orient the boards on the wall. Use a level to check to make sure the boards are both straight. Mount them to the wall with nails in all 4 corners or more as needed, or hang using picture wire. Other Ideas Write your name! Write out the names of herbs, veggies, fruits, or even a favorite recipe and hang the corkboard in your kitchen. Put fabric-covered board behind.
The great thing about making your own prints is finding your own creative voice. Don’t be afraid to make something “ugly” on the way to a new design. Just trust your brain and your hands and make something entirely original. After some practice, your own style will emerge complete with your own designs—ones that are copyrightable to you. Craft vs. Design vs. Art This debate about the differences among craft, design, and art has been occurring for hundreds of years, is likely occurring at.