Post Something Monday - Screenprint

I'm in a band. 4 of the 6 of us are older dad-types. I feel a bit like Kevin on the office. It's like a dark little secret sometimes. In this band I play drums. Like Kevin on The Office. And I also am in charge of posters. I don't know if Kevin does posters.

I've cobbled together a screenprinting setup to print posters. My kids gave me a basic speedball set for Christmas, and I keep adding on as time goes on. I worked in t-shirt printing shops for several years in college and right after college. At the time I took so much for granted, like aluminum, retensionable frames, 320 count mesh, vacuum table exposure units, big, backlit wash-out sinks, and so on.

The poster above is the poster I just finished. It looked better in the illustrator file, I think. I should have mixed the pink lighter. And I've got some issues with my screen exposure setup (a 500 watt halogen shop light suspended above the screen which is laying on the floor with a piece of glass over it.) Here's another print I did a couple months ago that came out better, I think.



It would be so much easier (and cheaper) to go get color copies made from the file. But since I usually illustrate with a wacom tablet, I like the mess, the preparation, the tools, the stuff, that screenprinting requires. Not that I'd want to do it everyday, but it sure is a cool change of pace and a way to look at the art in a totally different way.