screen printing question
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- BonSeff
has anyone screen printed a clear varninsh? id like to try it but cant think of anything thick enough. i thought regular varnish might be too thin.
any suggestions or recommendatons?
- randoman0
Are you screening onto wood/hard surface or fabric? I would think a stencil would be better, but I don't know enough to say for sure.
- designerror0
i sprayd stencil style once to get the transparent feel to it and it worked pretty good
dust of the cutting knife and clear spraycan !
- k770
randoman made sense!!
seriously, i think he did.
on a more tech note you could probably find acrylic medium in your art store. it's not screen ink, but it's sure as thick. might work.
- BonSeff0
cool, thanks!
i up to sparamint
- k770
you can get glossy or matte. i'd go with the glossy shit.
- mrdobolina0
cant you get speedball clear varnish, vato?
- monstress0
Speedball makes a clear ink medium--other acrylic ink manufacturers give you the choice between matte and shiny. My best results were always with Nazdar oil based, but you HAVE to be well ventilated. Go with the stencils, you could set up a registration system with them just as easily.
- BonSeff0
ive never seen the speedball varnish. guess i'll dig a little deeper..
the spot i want to use is far too complicated for a stencil
- monstress0
You could try Liquidtex-it has all sorts of additives and such, so you could mix up a varnish that would not dry too fast. What size an edition are you printing? And how large?
- BonSeff0
its a small print and a small run,
30 decent pieces im hoping for and the overall size is 9x11. pretty small. im fitting all the seps on one screen cause my cat ripped up all my other ones
:P
- BonSeff0
monstress, i emailed you an example of what id like to achieve
- timg0
i've had tshirts screened with a clear gel.. but i wasn't doing the printing so can't tell you much more than that.
it looked really nice though. i think its the same medium used to do those "wet-look" effects.. just ask them to add no pigment.