Silk Screen Printing
February 3, 2009
Last week we had a silk screen printing workshop by Rena Karanouh and it was the first time I see a work being silk screen printed. Personally I loved the technique and thought it would be one that I’m going to use a lot in my life. I really can’t say which one of the different styles I liked most because, to be honest, I liked all of them. I really appreciated the ones where an artist would use the four colors (CMYK) in some areas in halftone to make it look close to photography, and solid colors in others.
But what i like better (something that suits my style), is the one where the outline is offset-printed on top of the filling colors. I think it gives the piece a twist and makes it look very graphical.
After this workshop, I am quite sure that I will be using silk screen printing in many of my works, especially poster designs, knowing that i like using solid colors and vector graphics in most of my work…
There are some examples I found on the web:
What I think makes this a great piece is the combination of halftone photographic printing with an illustrative solid print…
The two posters above show that nothing is really impossible in silk screen printing, no matter how complex it is.
This last poster is my favorite. I really like everything about it from colors, to type, to the abstraction at the bottom created by the offset of the black on white…
