One thing I expressed to Marisha was my love for
fabric and how I really wanted to work with it. She made sure that I learned a
little about the process of screen printing on fabric and how to choose certain
dyes/inks for certain colored or types of fabric.
This was important because,
certain inks/dyes react differently to different kinds of materials. We first
started this process by gathering different materials for me to print on. Using
a screen I had already prepared, we gathered our inks, and set up our
registration and placement of where we would print.
The first thing I decided
to print on was an old cotton black dress I had and decided it would be perfect
to print on. Marisha made aware to me that black and the type of fabric we used
can be a little tough to print on especially using acrylic screen printing ink
due to how the material may take to the ink, and how easily the image could get
lost on a dark material. Luckily, we were able to use certain colors to achieve
a good print.
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