Random Thoughts

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…

I wanted to try more over-printing to see whether anything exciting happens.  So I took one of the Jimbo t-shirts I did a couple of weeks ago and made one final Daltokyo logo print.

Nothing weird happened, but that looks kinda nice!

(Both the Jimbo image and the Daltokyo logo are by Gary Panter.)

This one went well until I got to the black layer:

I forgot to clean the squeegee after the gold layer, so the black one got a bit muddled.  Which isn’t a good thing if you’re doing this kind of print. If it isn’t crisp it looks like a mistake.  Which it is.

I usually wash the screen between each printing, which takes a lot of time.  I wanted to see what happened if I used the same, unwashed screen several times…

Well, that’s not what I expected!  It’s weird how the paint-on-paint stuff almost goes inverse.

The other effect was perhaps more to be expected.  When I moved the screen, without cleaning it, it picked up quite a lot of ink which it then deposited — looking rather like dirt.

But I like the idea.  I have to print more of this Mark Newgarden image taken from “Love’s Savage Fury” and see what happens.  I should get some light, but not white, shirts to print on…

The very first print I made (before I had anything proper to print on) was the Daltokyo logo. So I wanted to print it properly.

Oops!  That didn’t really go too well…

Let’s try again with gold ink for max bling.

Eek!  The screen has been improperly washed, and that’s the problem.  Oh, well.

(Daltokyo is by Gary Panter, of course.)