I’m still still still waiting for the right squeegee (the squeegee shop owners apparently went to France for the summer) for doing screen printing, but I got a shipment of t-shirt blanks. So I had to make something.
I bought a different make of iron-on transfers — this time for black shirts. Sigel Foil T-Shirt Transfers. Or something:
These are pretty nice. You print out onto the transfer “paper”, remove the backing, and then iron the plastic onto the shirt. The end result is kinda stiff, so it makes the shirt bunch up a bit, but it does look quite nice.
For an iron-on transfer thing. How’s that for a review.
Even though the screen wasn't exposed well, I thought I could make an attempt to print something, just to see how that goes. I put a backing board into the shirt to have firm to print onto. And then I put the shirt onto a frame to raise it from…
I wanted to do a print that would end at the neck, so when I saw this Charles Burns image, I just went with it. And it just worked. I used a pretty soft squeegee. But I got a pretty heavy paint deposit around the collar: Looks quite punk, though,…
Today I'm going to attempt a real screen printing. I've selected an image from Daltokyo by Gary Panter -- the first drawring from the first strip. I'm printing on a black shirt, and the drawing is with black lines on a white background. So I can't really print the lines…
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