In the Fall of 2022, I took an Intro to Screen-Printing course as an elective for my Design & Media minor. Throughout the course, we were given several prompts and made 3-4 yard prints from screens we built ourselves.
The process we used for creating a project was
- Brainstorm a design that could be repeated on a screen
- Sketch out the design on a large piece of white paper (or design it digitally and get it printed onto blueprint paper)
- Scrap our previous screen and rebuild a new screen onto the frame
- Apply emulsion and expose our new design onto the screen
- Dye 5-6 samples of fabric to try different colorways
- Mix pigment to apply to the screen and print our designs
- Create 5-6 colorways per project in order to decide which color palette we wanted to use for our final
- Class-wide sample critique
- Dye the final stretch of fabric
- Screenprint 5-6 repeats onto the stretch of fabric
- Final critiques
I ended up loving this class and found the process of screen-printing to be really challenging, but also exciting! Here’s a couple of samples of my work throughout the semester:
