Screening stuff other than paint

Posted by on Nov 11, 2010 in Inspiration, The Clubhouse | No Comments
Screening stuff other than paint

I’ve been noticing a lot of clever chickens lately who’ve been screening all sorts of stuff other than paint. It never would have occurred to me to put anything other than the finest (maybe not always the finest) paints through my precious screens but after seeing some of the inventive things that other folks have been doing, I’m starting to think again and brew all sorts of crazy ideas. Here’s a couple of projects from FPO and Eye Magazine that I’ve been digging in particular.

We Freak on My Jeep by Excuses Design Collective
In a nutshell, these guys basically exposed their image onto their screens, then screened glue through the silk, quickly washed it out their screens and then poured hundreds and thousands over the print to stick to the glue. They even screened the “Beep Beep” part separately in a gloss varnish.

Pretty amazing stuff.

Read the full article here.

Oil and Water do not mix by Anthony Burrill with Happiness Brussels
Mr Anthony Burrill marched himself down to the polluted beaches of Grand Isle, Louisiana with bucket and spade and (easily) collected enough oil to use as a paint to screen these amazing posters.

Burrill comments: ‘There is a perception among many people that the oil in the Gulf of Mexico is just going to somehow disappear … For people in the Gulf, including Louisiana, the effects of this disaster will be around for a long time.’

Read the full article here.

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