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We Will Meet on a Cloud - Screen Print - 12x19"I printed some of these on paper that I stained with coffee. I'm still printing more in different colors also. How many color separations do you think this is?
Full View is really nice, its the intricacies in the overprinting that make this piece so pleasant.
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I really love this. The composition is totally effing awesome and the colours are sweet.
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You have to make some poster prints. I would absolutely love some of these on my walls.
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all I can relaly say is wow, this puts my prints to shame.. I have some weird ideas im working with but this.. it's just great...
p.s. 12x19... did you make the frame or buy it if so where did yuo buy it, I live in an area that is not so kind to screen printers so it's hard to find anything
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thank you for the compliments. I bought my screens pre-stretched. I live in Minneapolis and theres one good screen printing store called Northwest Graphic Supply. The ones I have are around 30"x38", 2 wood, 1 aluminum. They aren't cheap, but I highly recommend the investment in a large screen, it allows you to do larger prints and to put more than one stencil on your screen at a time.
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yeah im stuck with 6 10"x14"(speedball) and a home made hard wood 36"x24" frame.. i just cant find any screens for it around here. yeah i have this print i want to do that is abuot 30x30 and i dont have anything to do it with.
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yeah 30x30" is a hard size to work with. In america it is hard to find screenprinting supplies that will work for sizes over 26x40", as that is the largest commercial size available these days (since screen printing has majorly decreased as a form of commercial print-making in America). That would also be a really hard print to manage without a vacuum table. My guess is to get a screen that size you would have to go aluminum and would be a few hundred dollars. The problem with the speedball screens is they are catered towards people that are trying to learn to print shirts so they are a coarser mesh (I think the speedball I have is around 110 mesh count), it lacks the ability to handle refined details. Your best option unfortunately is online. I'd purchase the mesh online (I recommend around 190 mesh count) and try and build it and stretch it yourself. I wonder if maybe stretchers for a canvas would work? those are common to find in large sizes.
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yeah i decided to go down to about 18x18 now. but yeah i was looking around and just decided im going to make one out of hardwood because its nice and firm and wont warp plus its easy to work with, they make a screen stretcher but they are so
outragously priced. yeah you are definatly right about the mesh count but i have to use a coarser mesh because i do alot of prints on fabric and the fine mesh doesnt lay the ink down as well(in my experience with finer meshes)i was looking on dickblick.com and found some balasters for making screens too for fairly cheap.
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sounds good, I'm glad your able to figure out some solutions to continue with your project. I agree with you about fine meshes on fabric, it just doesn't work well. Good luck!
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Do you use gigposters . com? [link]
I do. It's a valuable resource.
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I looked at it a couple times but thats it. You mean its a valuable resource to post your work? or how so?
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it's a good resource for questions or anything screen printing related. a lot of established and well recognized screen printers use the website. check out the fourms section.
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excellent work! You should be selling your stuff in the dA print store
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3 colours?
This is hot. I would hang this on my wall.
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very nice stencil work and colors. such a cool idea with the paper as well!
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I like these colours more, I normally like deeply saturated colours better but in this case...I don't. I think its cos the colour used on the writing needs to be the darkest. And if I got really picky, I think some of the words aren't defined enough...like at first glance to me, it says 'we will met and cloud'. Its the e's on top f each other and the realy choppy shape of the letters in 'on' and 'a'. I think you could still maintain that psychadelic-60's-music-poster look while making it a little neater. And I think the patterns underneath the faces detract a little from the overall look.
But I still really like it and I admire your skills! (I've never really even attempted screen printing...my dad did some great realism ones back in his college days...but I reckon yours is more fun!)
I hope that this comment made sense...*upcoming shameless self plugging*...feel free to take a look at my gallery...(^_^)
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thanks for the critique, these are the types of responses I love... something positive, something negative, always helpful. I will keep these in mind on my future projects.
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One of the most interesting screenprints I've ever seen.. amazing how all the overlaps work so well with them all being somewhat dark and bold.
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shouldnt be more then 3 seperations not counting the coffee, nice compostion
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Nice print. The way the colors are overlaid looks really good. Makes for a nice economy of design.
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thank you, I'm really trying to get the most out of my colors, and attempt to improve this with each print. Thanks for your comment!
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ooh! I love this.. the colours are excellent!
This reminds me a little of the cosmic rough riders artwork
Only, this is much nicer.. very harmonious...
xXx
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ooo i love it, very very nice. love the colors and everything.
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sweet work the 'belly' concept is totally cool.
i'm thinking maybe maybe... it would be cool to introduce
another gradient of color on the dots effect [forgot it's name]
that makes the framing for the top part of the image
like maybe a purple and yellow gradient on it fron the left
.. just the way i imagine it.
cheers
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its called a halftone, and I think your on to something. Sprinkling the brown around in the halftone to create some purples probably would've looked nice, thanks for the idea!
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amazing and i think its only 3 colors, right?? well, plus the coffee
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20.
At first I didn't spot the people until I full viewed. I was going to say how much I like it but your comment, "Full View is really nice, its the intricacies in the overprinting that make this piece so pleasant." is making me laugh. It's true, it's just the way you put it that's funny. "so pleasant" sounds like a massage or something. haha.
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hehe, it is a massage! its massaging my creative ambitions, this piece will make me feel settled and satisfied with myself for another week.
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Truly poetic. *puke* Just messing!
p.s.
You didn't tell me how many color seperations there are.
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I'm not doing a good job of fooling people, its 3 (plus coffee). I've got a new print Im finishing today that is a little bit better of execution when it comes to overprinting, maybe I can trick someone with that one!
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Well you tricked me. Then again I just blurted out a random number, haha.
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