25 August 2011

Silkscreen

I spent the past 3 days at Zea Mays Printmaking in Florence MA at a silkscreen workshop taught by Jennifer Cooke of Raeburn Ink. It was a really fun workshop and I was very surprised to discover that I could make silkscreen look like watercolor by using extender in the inks. Here's one of the pieces I made at the workshop.

Silkscreen
Experimental silkscreen print by Annie Bissett

I think silkscreen will come in handy when I want to include text in a woodblock print and I don't want to carve it. Or printing on fabric. Or...

3 comments:

Elisabeth Omdahl said...

Almost makes me droole!
Lovely!
E

Anita Thomhave Simonsen said...

it looks good and it sounds great that it can make a look just like watercolor...that is so good...good luck with using this method...many oportunities it seems... :O)

from Anita

jen said...

lovely! great to meet you Annie :)