Random Thoughts

I thought it might be fun to try to do overlapping prints, so I chose an image from Mark Newgarden’s “Love’s Savage Fury”.

I knew I was using the wrong tool to apply the photo-sensitive emulsion to the screen:

It got all thick and bubbly and … wrong.

I wanted to do some smaller prints on the front of the shirt and then one large print on the back:

That went quite well…  Hm…  I wonder what’ll happen if I print it in gold (I got new paints yesterday) on grey…

Oops.  It went all inverse.  Colours are difficult.

OK, let’s try doing the overlapping colour prints.

Oh! My! Emacs!

The Nancy imagery is just too powerful.  I try to just find one perfect print for each of the comics I choose, but I have to do more variations, I think.  The difficulty here is that I have to print these in “dark” colours on “light” t-shirts to avoid having them read as inverted.

Hm…  Perhaps I could get some very light grey t-shirts?  I don’t really like white t-shirts.

I did a Jerry Moriarty t-shirt last week, but then I went through the transparencies I printed last summer and found another one.  So I had to do another print.

For this shirt, I did without any pins or anything to line up the different bits of the print.  (The bar vs the rest of the image, basically.)  And using a really bright light to illuminate the screen, I got things lined up better than ever in this white and gold on blue print.  Whee!

Since most of my metallic prints go all wrong (due to insufficient curing or over-curing) I wanted to do another variation…  Er…  red and silver on blue?

Yeah, OK.  That’ll have to do.

(This is a panel from the Jack Survives one shot by Raw Magazine by Jerry Moriarty, who is a guy that should have done a whole lot more comics.)