A few weeks ago I turned 40. And I never felt more energetic and in flow. Why? A lot has to do with the Discovery of Screenprinting.
All my illustrating life I’ve always been looking for the most colourful paints and techniques. I thought that Schmincke watercolours was the most bright color (wo)man could get.
But when I was about 16 I discovered the old printing techniques: lino, lithography, etching. And then already I loved the smell of the inks, the dirt on my hands when I came home, the physical hard work the printing process is.
Screenprinting was in that time the most modern but very time-intensive and very un-ecological way you could print. It didn’t appeal to me then.
That is until I took a two day course in a screen print workshop near my house, ‘Gezeever’. And I was instantly smitten!
This was the result of my first day, when we learned the basics with a cutter template in two colours:
- color 1!
- moments before inking the second color 🙂
- woohoo the cat!
The second day we had to prepare a two colour film. I just loved it, to make and tweak the illustration on my new iPad Pro. I couldn’t choose though: blue-pink or yellow pink? Hell, I like to do it difficult and hate to choose: I did both! 🙂
After the basic course I made myself member. Now I can go screen print whenever I want. My first ‘screen print alone’ was an attempt to make tote bags in three colours. But they did only turn out in the colors I wanted the second session. 🙂
- two colors…
- totebags AND shirts
- woohoo…
- first shirts! woo! these colours on bright white!!
- colorbagbaby!!
- sooo great, the color flash result after hours ofwork…
- bring it on! 🙂
Next session? A four colour print of one of my floral patterns off course! Now four color printing, THAT is a lot of work!
But the thrill and joy of seeing that first one with the fourth color… Undescribable joy! 🙂
- the screen…
- color 1,
- color 2 – fluor yellow
- clog three, fluor orange
- aaah and then color 4! Fluor pink!!!
- M A G I C
Need I say more? I’m totally in love. 🙂
Watch me screen printing in the next months…
All prints for sale on
www.etsy.com/fennabee