Couture: Burns Agains

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, so I don’t mind.  But I wonder what I’d have to do to not get the paint bunching up there…  Hm…  Lighter squeegee action?

Even worse, I over-cured the paint (with my hot air gun).  Ruined the neck.  Gahh!

Ok, try again…

Hey, nice.  That’s dark blue, white, gold and red paints.

I thought the likelihood of me totally ruining this shirt was pretty good, so I printed two copies.  The second one in silver, white, yellow and blue.  But both turned out pretty swell.  Whodathunk.  I must finally be getting some kind of control over my squeegee technique…