Things You'll Need:
- Printer Inks
- Masking Tape
- Silk Screen Light Tables Or White Cardboard
- Masking Tape
- Registration Marks Or Fine-lined Pen
- Burlap
- Sandpaper
- Sandpaper
- grease pencil (and or conte crayon, litho crayon, black prisma pencil, india ink for drawing on film)
- frosted or smooth mylar (or plain mylar, wet media acetate, or frosted lexan)
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Step 1
Consider how any of the colors could be combined in the printing to create a third color if you want to make a more complex version of the image described above.
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Step 2
Take the blue printer, for instance, and, in addition to the sky, draw in the grass - but instead of filling in this area as a solid on the transparency, create a textured or "shaded" area that will allow only a little blue ink to be deposited on the paper when printing.
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Step 3
Take the "yellow" transparency, and also draw into the corresponding "grass" area, allowing a certain amount of yellow ink to be deposited along with the blue.
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Step 4
Allow more yellow for a greener mixture; the more blue, the darker the green will be.
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Step 5
Print the blue over the yellow and the blue will dominate. Reverse the order of printing and print the yellow over the blue, and the yellow will lighten the green.
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Step 1
Refer to "How to Make a Hand-Drawn Positive for Silkscreen Exposure" for tips on drawing directly onto the screen; "How to Expose Photo-Emulsion for Silkscreen Printing" for tips on how to expose it once it's drawn; and "How to Print a Multi-Color Silkscreen" for printing information.
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Step 2
Consider the "order of printing," or how the colors will lay down over each other, as well as which colors to use. This is essential to produce a good multicolor print.
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Step 1
Imagine making a simple mechanical from a kid's coloring book image - a landscape with a house and a tree.
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Step 2
Begin by redrawing the key image - in this case, the line work in the coloring book of the house and the tree - on a piece of mylar (or other transparent material) cut larger than the final image. This is your "key transparency."
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Step 3
Place registration marks on all four sides of the art, outside of the image area. Create these by drawing a number symbol "#" with a fine-lined pen or by using ready-made "register marks" created for this purpose and sold at graphic arts supply houses.
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Step 4
Tape your key transparency down on a white piece of cardboard (or directly onto a light table if you have access to one).
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Step 5
Take your next piece of mylar and tape this over the first transparency so it will not move.
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Step 6
Draw or place the register marks accurately over the ones already on the key printer. This is your "blue" printer: on it you draw all of the blue information represented in the picture - the sky, the windows of the house....
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Step 7
Remove the blue printer, tape another piece of mylar over the key printer, register it to the key, and draw in the red information in the picture - the house, the tree trunk....
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Step 8
Do the same with the "yellow" printer and draw in the sun.
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Step 9
Continue until all the colors, or "drops," have been drawn. You now have a multicolor mechanical, also known as a color separation.
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Anonymous said
on 11/22/2005 When doing art work, remember that the color red absorbs most light rays. So draw with a red ink pen instead of black. Even though it looks transparent, emulsion won't cure behind it.