Silk Screening!!

My official new favorite art style is silk screening. Why you ask? Well first not only can you print clear images on shirts, fabric, pretty much anywhere you want, but its like it was professionally done. When you go somewhere and someone asks you where did you get that shirt, you can say, I made it and mean it. Silk screening is a printmaking style using a stencil. The method to going about doing this is what makes it stand out from regular stencils. From building the screen to burning the image on, it is a very tedious task that requires a bit of experience. You’ll probably go through two or three screens before you can actually get one that is half decent. The key element in silk screening is the use of chemicals called emulsion to burn the image with a bright light onto the screen. The emulsion hardens when introduced to bright light and whatever is not hit by the light remains a semi-liquid state that you can later wash off to reveal the image. Shirt that you buy from the store are mainly silk screened and is probably the best way to get a professional, and clean look without doing so much work as to cut a stencil out. If your unsure of what to do, you can check out the many site online with steps on how to silk screen, and soon you’ll be making all your clothes by yourself.