Session B: Analog Silkscreen Printing with Mike O'Brien
Short Class | Available
This is a 3-week crash course for students, at any experience level, who either want to learn silkscreen printing, or simply need access to our print studio facilities to make a project.
Silkscreen printing, also called “screenprinting” and “serigraph” involves creating a stencil on a stretched mesh screen and forcing ink through one side of the screen to the other and onto a surface. Our surface will be paper, though it’s possible to print on wood, glass, textiles and more.
Students will learn the entire hand-made (computer free) silkscreen printing process, using our state-of-the-art equipment to “burn” hand-drawn stencils into screens and use those to transfer images to paper.
Students will also learn the fundamentals of layer-based image making, where a design is broken into separate colors to be layered on top of each other.
All students will receive materials to print a limited edition of ten 9x12” silkscreen prints with two layers of color.
Each mini-term is 3 consecutive weeks. Classes cannot be divided across sessions.
Students will receive materials to print an edition of ten silkscreen prints on 9x12” paper. Includes:
• French Paper Co - Madero Beach Cardstock
• Victory Factory Aluminum Screens
• Speedball Acrylic Screen Printing Ink
Optional (because we have materials to share), but you may want to bring these:
• Sketching tools (colored pencils, markers, pens, etc)
• Digital tablets, lightboxes, or anything else you like to work on visual ideas with
• Apron or smock
• Small rags (scrap t-shirts, etc. to donate to the studio collection)
Students are encouraged to dress in clothes (and shoes!) that can get ink on them and/or bring an apron to wear.
Michael O'Brien
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