11.08 Screenprinting - The Future?
I have been promising this post for such a long time, and I finally took some shots the other day of my work. I took an adult education class in the city because I had always fancied doing some some proper t-shirt printing. Having organised artwork for screenprinting while working at bellingham + stanley, I was really looking forward to the photographic stuff.
The first couple of weeks were spent using stencils & block outs to get an idea of laying the images. These are just a couple of the first attempts. I'm not a fine artist & trying to come up with something spontaneously was pretty difficult, even though we live in a city with loads going on around us!! As you can see Bolte Bridge featured a couple of times!
This is one of the photos I used, taken on one of those days between jobs - might have had a few of those!?!
The colour image was taken & then converted to pure black & white and the image was cleaned up - logo's removed and some of the fore/background was also removed.
The final pictures are test prints of exposed image. The logo artwork was generated from scratch, and applied to the edited images too.
The process of taking the image, converting & editing it was repeated for the all the photos used. Incorporated on to this picture was the text taken from a tram ticket. All these test prints were done on a day that the negative didn't take to the screen very well, as you can see from the logo!
The finished product! A LazyVee tram print on a t-shirt!!
The first LazyVee.com t-shirt! You'll have to watch the website for any further developments! There were/are plans to perhaps investigate t-shirt printing further. It would be nice to be able to source the t-shirts, printing, etc from a centralised source. Unfortunately I don't have the space to print the t-shirts myself. I have though found a t-shirt manufacturer who use australian grown organic cotton, and who manufacture & print here too. All in the aim of trying to be fair trade & limiting the amount of clothing miles (we've all heard of food miles!).
The first couple of weeks were spent using stencils & block outs to get an idea of laying the images. These are just a couple of the first attempts. I'm not a fine artist & trying to come up with something spontaneously was pretty difficult, even though we live in a city with loads going on around us!! As you can see Bolte Bridge featured a couple of times!
This is one of the photos I used, taken on one of those days between jobs - might have had a few of those!?!
The colour image was taken & then converted to pure black & white and the image was cleaned up - logo's removed and some of the fore/background was also removed.
The final pictures are test prints of exposed image. The logo artwork was generated from scratch, and applied to the edited images too.
The process of taking the image, converting & editing it was repeated for the all the photos used. Incorporated on to this picture was the text taken from a tram ticket. All these test prints were done on a day that the negative didn't take to the screen very well, as you can see from the logo!
The finished product! A LazyVee tram print on a t-shirt!!
The first LazyVee.com t-shirt! You'll have to watch the website for any further developments! There were/are plans to perhaps investigate t-shirt printing further. It would be nice to be able to source the t-shirts, printing, etc from a centralised source. Unfortunately I don't have the space to print the t-shirts myself. I have though found a t-shirt manufacturer who use australian grown organic cotton, and who manufacture & print here too. All in the aim of trying to be fair trade & limiting the amount of clothing miles (we've all heard of food miles!).Labels: ideas, screenprinting, trams
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