gmalm on tue 25 nov 97
Hi, Can someone steer me in the direction of a good book describing the
process and details of transferring an image to a silk screen and how to
apply the image via glazes to plates. How does one adjust for the slightly
concave surface of plates?
Gary (Sebastopol, CA)
gmalm@ix.netcom.com
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Bill Aycock on wed 26 nov 97
Gary- I dont have a good - late issue- book on silk screen, but I have seen
how plates are done commercially. You may be able to adapt it to your work
Simply- they silkscreen onto a rubber sheet that is then placed on the
plate and "sucked" into contact with a vacuum. You could probably use a
rubber sheet- then press it into contact (carefully) by hand, if setting up
a vacuum frame is too much.
Good luck from Bill on Persimmon Hill-
At 05:15 PM 11/25/97 EST, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Hi, Can someone steer me in the direction of a good book describing the
>process and details of transferring an image to a silk screen and how to
>apply the image via glazes to plates. How does one adjust for the slightly
>concave surface of plates?
>
>Gary (Sebastopol, CA)
>
>gmalm@ix.netcom.com
>
>
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>"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of
>in your philosophy." Shakespeare, "Hamlet"
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Bill Aycock --- Persimmon Hill --- Woodville, Alabama, US 35776
--- (in the N.E. corner of the State) ---
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Paul Lewing on wed 26 nov 97
Gary,
I think your best bet on learning how to silkscreen on pots would be
to take a silkscreening on paper class. There is virtually no
difference between doing it with ink and doing it with ceramic
materials. I learned on paper back in college and had no trouble
transferring it to ceramic stuff.
I use the Hunt-Speedball system of making screens, and the manual that
comes with the materials tells you all you need to know about the
process.
HOWEVER, silkscreening presupposes a surface that is flat in two
dimensions. It is pretty near impossible to screen onto a surface
like the inside of a plate or bowl that is curved in three dimensions.
Ans it must be truly FLAT. The tiniest of throwing ridges or glaze
drips will result in blank spots in your image.
Another problem is getting a stretched screen and its frame down into
your plate. If your screen is loose enough to dip down to the curve
of your plate, or if it's loose with no frame, the wrinkles it makes
will mess you up. Plus you can't find a squeegee that will exactly
match the curvature of your plate. And if you want to print more than
one color, you'll never be able to register the the second screen.
I do quite a bit of screening, but it's all on tiles. And those tiles
that are supposed to look handmade that have slight ripples in them
will not work for screening.
What you need to do is print your own decals. They can easily be
manipulated onto curves. You would have no problem puting a decal on
the bottom of a plate, even if it had throwing rings in it. The
supplies for decal making are easily available from ceramic supply
places, and the technique is, again, no different from printing on
paper, except there's an extra step to make it a decal. They should
come with instructions, too.
You can screen pretty much any ceramic material- I do china paint, but
you could use stains, underglazes, slips, even high-fire glaze if you
want. You just have to get a mesh of screen that your material will
pass through (remember the coarser the screen the coarser will be the
level of detail you can print), get it to the right consistency (about
like mayonnaise) with a medium that will not dry out while you print.
There are a bunch of oil base things out there, but I use a mixture of
water and gum arabic for a water-soluble medium.
Silkscreening is really a very simple technique in principle, so just
go dive in. Sometimes art supply stores will have demos, too.
Good luck,
Paul Lewing, Seattle
Don Jones on thu 27 nov 97
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Hi, Can someone steer me in the direction of a good book describing the
>process and details of transferring an image to a silk screen and how to
>apply the image via glazes to plates. How does one adjust for the slightly
>concave surface of plates?
>
>Gary (Sebastopol, CA)
>
>gmalm@ix.netcom.com
>
>
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>"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of
>in your philosophy." Shakespeare, "Hamlet"
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Gary,
If you can find the January 1995 edition of CM, the cover artist goes into
detail on how to do this. Also, I have an article in there which is
totally unrelated!
Don Jones
claysky@highfiber.com
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