Archive for February, 2010

Some Sites to Inspire Creativity

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Twin lense reflex camera

Having the Yudu makes me aware of how much I would like to create my own artwork. Actually producing the artwork takes more effort and time than what I imagined. I think it is like any skill, if you haven’t used it in awhile it is rusty!
I love this typography sample at the Behance Network, Wyatt typography

This artist has some very interesting graphics that I enjoyed:
Irina Batkova

This site had some very interesting images:
Depthcore: Digital art and media collective

I found many interesting sites in this article:
33-new-places-to-get-design-inspiration

Do you have any sites that give you inspiration?

A Few Pointers On Screen Printing

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

One of the first things I advise people to do when working with screen printing and direct liquid emulsions is to use 100% opaque film. This is something that we have become accustom to not having. In the early days of screen printing the film positives were made using a genuine photographic process producing a silver nitrate piece of film that was just absolutely opaque. The density of the image area in the film was 100%. The film was made with “process” cameras or “stat” cameras and processed through small automatic developing machines. As the computer came of age we started to see cheaper and easier methods of producing film positives emerge on the commercial market. The draw back or compensation for the lesser cost is: many computer produced laser vellum products and inkjet or laser films are inferior compared to their true film predecessors. Check out the article called Outputting Artwork To Film on the Catspit website. (more…)

Baby you are as cute as a bug..

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

Today was a very fun, creative day!

I was inspired to make a gift set for a family who is soon expecting their first baby. I decided to hand sketch my image this time. I am exploring different styles that work well as a screen print image.

After sketching my “cute as a bug” image I scanned it into my computer.
I used the eye dropper in Gimp to make sure that I selected the darkest black for the outline and also added some contrast. I did several test runs to get the size just right for the very small onesie. Next, I printed the images on my transperancies. I cut the images apart so that I could get maximum use of my 220 screen. (more…)