i picked up some supplies at hobblelobble yesterday. i'm going the route of "the cheaper the better" and using drawing fluid and screen filler, not photo emulsion. using drawing fluid won't give you as good a print as photo emulsion, but i don't really care. i like dirty grimey prints anyways. i'll take some pictures and post a step-by-step as i make my first screen
hah, pimp. im loaded with acrylic, im setting up a screen print thing this summer in that case. where do i get the screen and what mesh size should i be for oil/acrylic?
Just make sure it's fairly thick. Thing is screen printing ink is made so that it wont like clug the screen. Oil based acrylics should work. Just remember if the ink is too thin you'll just make a big mess and youll get bad prints.
no i mean like oil paint, i dont think its acrylic based... and how does it stand in the weather(acrylic and oil...)?
Cesk: I'm going to merge the original post with the post of the tutorial. Edit: I cannot merge the post at this moment. The action will be performed later.
Another idea, aside from how to print and such. I went to school for this for sometime, although theres no jobs, or openings. Printing is a dying art. What I did, and you can try.... If you know of a company that could use t-shirts/uniforms/apparel. Take some time to come up with a design they'll like. If its a company and uniforms, you'll be in luck with simplicity. Make a sample, show it to them. When someone has product in their hand, they're more likely to buy it than just telling them what you can do. When I had access to machines and all the materials for practically free (One low class fee) I did all sorts of random shit for grades, and ended up supplying 3 stores with uniforms, and an assload of friends and girls with homemade gear. Great way to make some money.
cesk your tutorial is confusing... how do you hold the design in the screen... like theres no bridges or nothing to hold all the triangles, so wtf is going on here...