#alternative printing

Yesterday I tried silkscreen printing for the first time and fell in love! I can’t wait to use this technique for my future projects. Here are some photos from a two days learning process at Grafishce werkplaats.

This is my first sketch of the artwork. I’m working on some mama/baby related project and wanted to print these elephants as part of it. I tried to keep the design as simple as possible since it was my first silkscreen printing experience ever. 

Here is the final digital version, ready to be printed in black as separate layers (part of the preparation process I didn’t know about). 

Choosing my colours

Screens!

this is how my design looked on the screen when I was printing the blue layer.

First layer!

And here it is ready! Thinking of sending some of them as presents to friends :)

Grafische werkplaats is closed for summer Holidays now, so I will have to wait a bit until my next screen printing session.