Emily's Cup Cakes

Emily

Emily's Cup Cakes

Here is my delightful grand daughter, Emily. She is a very careful, deliberate worker. She understood the process completely, mixed her own colors and printed in perfect registration. Emily started with an original line drawing of her cup cakes that she enlarged to be the size of her finished print. She started by making a drawing fluid and screen filler stencil that included every area she would print any color. From that point on she made Future stencils within the screen filler one. First she made a stencil for the lighter yellow, extending it into the frosting area. She painted drawing fluid onto this area, dried it, spread Future, dried it, removed drawing fluid with cold water, dried it and printed each piece of white Stonehenge paper with her lighter yellow ink. Then she cleaned the ink from the screen with cold water, dried it and made a reduction stencil within the light yellow stencil by painting drawing fluid onto the folds of the bottoms of the cup cakes (the little triangular areas), spread Future, dried, removed the drawing fluid, dried and printed each print with a darker color. After that was completed she removed the Future with clear
ammonia and cold water, dried the screen and proceeded to make four more Future stencils, first the light green, then blue, then pink.The green cup cake has blue and pink speckles on it. The screen was cleaned with ammonia after each - except for the pink stencil.  After printing  pink she made a reduction stencil to print a raspberry color on the on the pink raspberry and on the speckles green cup cake. Emily made a print of each color to keep as a record as well as the original drawing.