Smoothing Excess Glue for Silkscreening T-Shirts

Video Transcript

"AMANDA CLAIRE: All right. So now you can see I've gotten most of the glue on there. Now, I'm going to show you something sort of terrible. I'm going to flip it over, and you can see all this glue oozing through. So this is exactly why you want to be working on this side of the image 'cause if you were working with the flat side down, not only would you be sticking it to the surface you're working on, but if you moved it even a little bit, you would be smearing it. And sometimes you might, you know, accidentally smear it into the image that you want to be printing, and of course you don't want to do that. So what I do at this stage, when I'm pretty much done, is I turn it around and, you know, I'll hold it up. And anywhere where it looks like the glue has oozed through; I just kinda take my brush and just sort of smooth it out. And this will help it dry, this will help it kind of be, sort of a more even surface. I'm just going to kinda go around and, you know, the more kind of uniform it is and the more kinda evenly spread out it is, the quicker it'll dry and the better it'll print, too, because the surface will be more uniform. So that's what I'm going to do now, just kind of gently, just making sure I'm not getting it into my image. But I'm just kinda going around it and anywhere where it looks like the glue kind of oozed through, which is fine. You expect it to ooze through because you're painting on a pores material. But you just, you know, you don't want just--I mean you could even do what I'm doing here, which is to kind of almost like scrape some of it up and kind of put it back in the Mod Podge and that'll also help it dry a lot faster. So there's just kind of--especially when you're putting glue on these very large areas, sometime you get, you know, with the big brush, some accumulation of glue oozing through the other side. So I'm just going to taking some of that out, 'cause you really don't need it, this, you know, this thick on the screen. I mean, all you want to do is seal those little holes so this is my last step. And again, I'm being real careful to not really touch the image, you know, to not really touch the glue that's drying in the image and, you know, but this will be done soon and then we're going to let the whole screen dry and move on to printing it."