Category: Crafts & visual arts

Screen printing 1

2008/11/21

My first screen printing project, logo patches for our football team shirts.

Evolution of the logo:

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The original sketch (anonymous artist)

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Modifications by Juha Kärkkäinen

Two-color design that was transferred on transparencies
Finalized by me

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Silk screens

Real silk! ...and photoresist. Exposed by ultraviolet light through two duplicate layers of photocopier transparencies. The frames are hardwood photo frames that were on sale, 2 EUR each.

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Two-color prints (on small pieces of black cotton)

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Patch, pigment and opaque printing paste

Not perfect registration of the colors, but what the heck. Also the pigment got stuck into the raster that was too fine.

an XL T-shirt of the football team, dyed using Procion MX colors
an XL T-shirt of the football team, dyed using Procion MX colors

a close-up on the T-shirt, the finished logo of the football team "flower fairies"
a close-up on the T-shirt, the finished logo of the football team "flower fairies"