When I came back home to Hamburg my husband was waiting for his dinner. I had made a good dinner the night before and we had leftover spareribs, coleslaw and some good bread. It didn't take very long to get it onto the table. Today, I decided to experiment with the screens that I had used for my demonstration. I printed a few green backgrounds and then printed the black screen on them. This time I used a Rives soft gray paper. Then on just a few I printed Overprint Varnish with the black screen. This will give just the black areas a shine and not change the color at all. It will give more of a contrast between the green and the black. In this photo the upper print has the varnish and the lower one doesn't. The varnish darkens the black ink and makes a better contrast with the soft green.
Then I decided to print some note cards with the screen for the black print. I had bought some cards and matching envelopes at AC Moore, on sale a while ago. I decided to print on those cards. I put some process magenta and some process cyan ink onto the screen, along with a lot of transparent base. The magenta was in the center of my screen and the cyan was at the outer edges. The squeegee would do the blending as I pulled it toward me. I printed a few on newspaper until I liked the look of it.
I liked the way that they looked. No two prints done this way will ever be exactly the same. I can always use note cards, or they make a good gift.
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