Silkscreen Session Part 1
The class started on silkscreen printing today!

After the weekly presentation, we all took a screen. I went with Nicole into the dark room first to coat my screen in blue ink with Jia Hui’s (our super kind student assistant’s) help, and placed it to dry for the next 20 minutes.

I’m sorry for being a public nuisance (u-u);;

While waiting for it to dry, I realised that we had to actually print our quotes together with the image on the transparency. I printed only the image, so I had to go reprint the transparency at One Stop.

After returning with the transparencies, our screens were dried! We grouped up in fours and went in to put the transparency on it so that we can do exposure! I went with Andree, Rochele and Amelia.

I forgot to take my phone into the room so I took some images with Shirley’s phone during the vacuuming process! (‘u’) (And for the dark room parts, we mostly used Andree and Rochele’s phones to take pictures. Thanks guys! ♡)

Jia Hui opening the vacuum machine and putting our four screens for vacuuming!

Zwoop!

(Thanks for the pictures, Shirley! ♡)

After that, we went to spray our designs with a hose-gun thing and wow, it was sure loud.

Hosing the screen generally got the big parts to come off, but we still parked by the sink so that we can scratch off the leftover emulsion bits that wasn’t supposed to be there.

-pew pew pew-

-scratch scratch dab dab-

WHY WON’T YOU COME OFF.
*scratching intensifies*

The emulsion was surprisingly strong! I scratched it with all my strength and it was still somewhat okay. I’m surprised that some of the thinner details made it as well – like the lace lines and the stars!

And also… BUDDY ROCHELE…!

If I’m not wrong, some of the other classmates had more intricate spots, and the hosing + scratching made those spots come off completely – what a nightmare. (Guys, you’re super amazing for redoing this. (;u;) )

After the hosing + scratching, I dried off the screen abit and just stored it in class – that was the end of today’s session!

Consultation
Other than the process, I also got a couple of feedbacks and notes:

– My designs were very central and safe; I will try to be more adventurous next time!
– I almost printed the designs with the wrong dash (an em dash instead of en dash. These dashes are evil.)
-Also, I got to talk to Shirley more about my other designs as well, other than the main design – like the crow and bacon design.

…And that was all! (‘u’)✿