Screen Printing Experiments

• Ella Peplowski

Hi Everyone! My name is Ella and this is my first blog post, I am so excited to be writing about printmaking this semester! In Prof. Chris Medley’s Screen Printing class this week, we were able to start experimenting with the screens and making some fun prints. We used watercolor (one of my favorite mediums ever) to create a print of our choice on the screens, and then transferred that onto paper with the opaque transfer ink.

This is what my screen looked like before I printed onto paper!
Above is my finished product along with one of my classmates’ work above it. I cut out butterfly stencils to stick onto the back before printing so it would create outlines and not print on those shapes! I think it came out super cool!

These are some more of my classmates’ work, some people chose to use watercolor pencils or crayons which created some really cool effects!

I also went over my print 2 more times to see how much more I could get out of it, and it was definitely lighter as the pigment faded but it created some cool backgrounds I could print other texts or graphics over. Overall I am very excited for this class and to learn all the different processes we can do with screen printing! Looking forward to the next project!

-Ella

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