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Working on a new Shirt....
Friday, February 17, 2006

Starting silk screening a new shirt today... this one is "Canadian Browncoat" themed... three colour application... basic design is the silouette of Serenity, with the Independent's flag filling in the shape of the ship, and the star replaced by a Maple Leaf (for us Canucks)... it's coming along well...
I've started a new technique for my templates, I'm using clear acetate (such as overhead projector sheets) as my pattern, so they can be A) seen through to line up multiple colours much more easily than solid paper and B) they're Reusable once you wash the paint off... helpful if you plan to do more than one run of the design...
I've also decided that Yellow sucks!!! It allows too much of the shirt colour to bleed through it, so it looks faded and doesn't stay bright or crisp looking... I think it will only work well on white or similarly very light coloured shirts.. don't even think about black, as I discovered when I tried to do a Serenity Logo shirt on black... just didn't work well, colour wise, everything looked washed out, plus, I tried a stippling method with the paint, but not at all happy with how that turned out... but I'm learning new things all the time...
Today's lesson: when screening a multi-coloured shirt, start with your weakest colour, and progress to the strongest colour...
I'll post a picture when it's done if it turns out okay...

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Friday, February 17, 2006 8:20 AM

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