Properties & Qualities
Application
Art Product Sample making
Qualities
3D Colourful
Colour
Blue Green Red Yellow
Sample Information
Date of Creation
January 20th, 2023
Culture & Context
| Mono printing covers many guises through printmaking and textiles. When using this technique with a screen it simply means to paint directly onto the screen with your design. This can then only be used once at its full strength of the design, and if you print it again without starting from the beginning you may get a less strong and slightly fuzzy design. |
Process & Production
| Here the images with the dark blue printing paste show my design for a textural background on the screen. You can either fill the whole screen with a design, full of colours, or you can cover areas then add a bead of clear binder along the screen and print through these areas. As some areas are left black on your screen these will be filled with binder and the print pastes will print through on the other areas to the fabric. The binder areas might be slightly tinted by the colour on the screen. When creating the design on the screen I lay the screen flat but slightly raised from the table by sitting it on cardboard stands (they are just the inside from a used roll of masking tape). Then I paint on the printing pastes into the design I want. I mostly use this technique for more painterly freehand backgrounds so I use instinctive movement and a variety of tools to create the marks. Then I place the screen on the fabric before the print paste dries, put some FF binder along the top then pull the design through. Then I go back to the top and pull the design through again. |
Recipe Details
| The textures on the blue piece uses spatulas and brushes to create interest.The colour used is pigment printing pastes – 15g Blue, 5g Black, 450g Binder |
Credits
Craft Maker
Mhairi Allan
Photographer
Mhairi Allan
