The first step

original sketch

    The very first step was to create an image. I made a sketch that was inspired by some art deco trees by E. A. Seguy. His trees were made with a process called pochoir. Stencils were used for each color; building up to the finished art work.
    I scanned my sketch and re sized it. I took the upper part of the center tree and made vertical borders for the sides of my print.
    When I was satisfied with my design I mounted it onto a sheet of print paper, taped and centered it under the screen and placed three cardboard register guides onto the screen backer board.
     There are two register guides at the lower right hand corner and one near the top on the right side. These guides were glued down and taped so that the print paper butted right up to them. This insures that the registration will be perfect. I use a glue stick on the guides so that the print paper will not slide under them.