Kitchen Table Screen Printing Easy Peasy!

This afternoon I tried a kitchen-table screen print using an old photo frame, vintage nylon curtain material, a credit card, acrylic paint, gel medium.

I enjoyed the simpleness of this method.

The results, not perfection but I can see it's going to work.

Acrylic paint, masking tape, clear gel medium.

Credit Card squeegee.

Bossy Girl drew me a bird.

Remember to mark where the paper goes (I didn't worry about this bit) but if you want them all the same - and that really is the point, you'll need this step.

The paper stencil a piece of A4 copy paper.There will be 4-5 of these, one for each colour.

 

 

And the screen goes straight into water when done for a scrub.

I'm so glad I had a go finally, it's not as messy as I thought it might be and it really didn't take up much room or time.

Have a go you might be surprised!

If you have any questions do ask.

I spent a full year doing paper stencil screen printing in my last year of art school, though no expert I might be able to help. 

Happy Printing!!

My other, other love.

A lot of the time I am only concentrating on Vintage Fabric and family life, but there are other things. One of them is vintage children's books with great illustrations. This week I found a quite a few almost by accident. Often I go out op shopping with not a cent in my wallet, those days I have to concentrate on stores that take eftpos, but they always have a $10 minimum. So Friday was one such day and I found a few things (2 gorgeous vintage handbags and a cute monkey-face purse for BGirl) total $7, I was almost about to tell the lady to 'just charge me $10' when I spotted their 6 books for $1 sign. So $3 later I have a pile for BossyGirl and a pile for me.

If you are looking for good books keep your eyes peeled for plastic covered books, these are often ex school library and are often of the age and type with brilliant illustrations. That probably is generalising but that's how I start a search. This book is 'Dimple - The adventures of a little Donkey' By Diane and Michael Jackson retold by Kathleen O'Farrell 1969. Illustrations are also by Michael Jackson. Printed in Czechoslovakia. I majored in Screenprinting in Art School and this book just makes the yearning inside me to print again so strong!! If you like the look of this book you can get copies on ebay and I found one here.

Today's Walk and Letterboxes.

I just got my walk in today before the rain started. Although Bossy Girls father was here and he took her to school I walked and stayed for assembly. BG loves racing mum in the car. I arrived about 5 minutes after them! Took the camera for the return journey and this is what I saw. Love letterboxes, no two are ever the same. I once did a full assignment on letter boxes at art school, very nice in black and white.