Painting Glue on Details for Silkscreening T-Shirts

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"AMANDA CLAIRE: Okay. So here's my image. When I print, the flat side of the screen will be down after I, you know, get the glue on to it. Now, so the thing I'm going to do now is start painting the Mod Podge glue right on to it. And remember, what this does is that actually is--the same thing as, I mean, it's not the same thing, but it's functionally doing the same thing as the photo emulsion, except we're not going to do a photographic exposure, we have to actually paint it in the areas where we don't want ink to go through. So what--the first you want to do is flip the screen over, because if you do it with the, with the fabric side down, you know, and you're working along and you're kind of, you know, putting glue on it and everything, two things can happen. One is that you can stick the dang thing to the table, and you don't want to do that. But the other thing is, is if you move it around and there is glue on the table because its gone through the screen, then you're going to get glue on other parts of the screen. And that's kind of a problem, in that once you kind of get some of the Mod Podge glue somewhere on the screen, it's not too easy to get it out, and it's going to affect the image in that area. So you kind of want to be careful with this. So the first thing I do is I'm going to flip it over, okay? So, yeah, I'm working with the image backwards, but, okay, I can deal with it. And so, I'm just going to start with my finest tip brush, you know? I'm just gonna, you know, get it wet in my tongue, and just use the Mod Podge right out of the jar, and I'm going to just start painting my--around my details first. And remember, your painting where you don't want there ink to be. So basically I'm going to paint this everywhere that, on my image is white. Okay. So I'm just going to start doing that with my fine tip brush. And this is, you know, this isn't too bad of an image. It'll take me a little while to get all the glue on there. But I'm just going to start with detailed areas first. And, so for example, here's a little detailed area on the jacket that needs to be black. So what I'm going to do with the fine tip brush is just kind of paint around it with the Mod Podge first. Because once you paint around little details, you can always come back in later and fill in the spaces in between details, right? So I can paint around this little--I think this is a little crease in his jacket or something, that's going to be in black, which is a little detail that kinda makes the design look good. So I'm going to kind of paint around that. And yeah, eventually it's true. I need to fill all of these with the glue. But there's no need to do that right away, you know? I'm just going to go ahead and paint around this detail next, just really--because that's really what you're going to see is the areas where the glue isn't going through, I'm sorry, the areas where you don't put glue. So, you might as well make nice and crisp edges on those details, around those details. And then once you kinda have that done, then you can sort of use your larger brush to kind of slop in all the areas and just kinda fill that in. So that's what I'm going to do first. I'm going to go around all my details that are going to be black with kinda the fine tip brush and kinda take care to--gonna be close to that line. And you really don't want to get that glue anywhere where you hope there'll be black to print because if you make a mistake, it's not easy to get out. So I'm going to work on this for a while, and see you in the next clip."