Brushes for Silkscreening T-Shirts

Video Transcript

"AMANDA CLAIRE: And the last thing you're going to need are an assortment of brushes and this is kind of unique to this type of screen printing because remember we're not going to do a photographic exposure of our image onto our photo emulsion; we have to actually paint the image on. And so, therefore, you know, imagine you're a painter and you need to have you know, brushes of different sizes. I mean, I've got a couple of fine tipped brushes here. You know, kind of some medium tipped brushes, but also you're also going to need kind of a large brush and you might even want one larger than this for the following reason. Here's a screen that I did kind of earlier. And you can see, you know, it kinda has a design here and hopefully you can sort of see--you can kind of see through the design area. So this where the image would have been printed kind of through these holes here and everything else the ink doesn't go through. Well, I had to--you know I had to coat all of this here with the glue because otherwise it's going to through on the image. So that's another reason why you want to have a large brush because you'll use like your finer brushes to kind of go through and kind of do all your edges and kind of your close up work and maybe your medium sized brushes to, I don't know, fill in kind of medium sized areas, but kinda--once you have your image done, you're going to have all this kind of area around that you also have to fill in with that glue, so that the ink doesn't come through when you do your printing. And so a brush like this or even larger than this is good for that and then you'll kind of fill in this outer area and so--that's kind of the--that's the material list, so we'll get started with doing the design."