Couture: Colours

I don’t really have the set-up to do multi-coloured prints where things are in perfect register.

But I thought that since this screen had clearly separated areas, then I could just mask stuff off, and print each thing separately (or “separately”) with different inks.

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Here’s the original Gary Panter cover nailed to the kitchen wall
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Masking off the logo and the tag line. I’m masking with a normal packing tape on the “non-well” side of the screen.
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Printing the face in white
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Then mask off the face
Then I put the ink down under each letter
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I used a single squeegee for all the three colours in the logo, which turned out to be awkward, because I usually flip the squeegee over after the “flood fill” pass. Which is obviously impossible here.
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Result!

The colours in the logo aren’t printed perfectly, because of the aforementioned flip problem, so I didn’t get a sufficient amount of ink through the screen.  But I’m gonna call this a success, anyway.  Hah!

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