My Class on Oct. 27 & 28 at the Power House

Here is a link for my class, I am looking forward to being on the campus for two days and teaching screen printing. I will have some ideas along for prints at the Power House, but hopefully my students will come with an idea of what they want to do.
We will be making a small edition of prints (12) in this class.We will be using a reduction technique in which the printed area gets smaller for each color that is printed. The unprinted paper can be one of the colors. The print paper will be 9” x 12” and the image should be no larger than 7” x 10”. You could use a copier to size an image. I will have some suitable designs at the class; but it is better to print something you have a feeling for. You can work from your own sketch, photograph or a composite of pasted up images. The finished print will be the same size as whatever you are working from. From now on I will refer to this as the working drawing. If you use a photograph, get a good photocopy of it enlarged to the size of your finished print and keep the original handy to refer to. You can use a copier to enlarge or reduce whatever images you want to use. Plan to have at least a one inch margin around your print. I have  a photo of a reduction print below.
It was printed with light blue, dark purple, black and iridescent blue.  You could plan to print about 4 colors ( + or -). I’m looking forward to our class. http://roycroftprintmaker.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-first-step.html. This link to my screen printing blog will give you some idea of how this works. “Another try at a reduction print” – start with “The fourth and Final Color” and the blog will take you through the process.

E's Trees - sketch through 4th color

Here is a link to a site that shows a different reduction method. She paints on the screen filler directly on the screen instead of using drawing fluid and filler as I do.   http://ilovesmesomeart.livejournal.com/610.html
We could try doing that too.