Screen Printing - Stencils

I made a print board from insulation foam, an old wool blanket, vinyl and an old poly-cotton bed sheet.

Ready to go, starting with primary coloured Procion MX dyes.

Working with a newspaper stencil is the 1st technique on

Kerr Grabowski's

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Deconstructed Screen Printing for Fabric and Paper'

DVD.The image fuzziness is an example of learning from mistakes. The cloth was too wet when I rolled it up in plastic and left it for 12 hours for the dye  molecules to bond. The water encouraged the dye molecules to continue migrating.

More often I would be working for a crisper image but now I know how to make a fuzzy one when I want to.The spots(drips) on this sample show where I learnt the ideal viscosity for the print paste.Both valuable lessons to learn.