Book Description
A complete home course in silk screen, describing all five of the most general and useful techniques. Step-by-step instructions plus chapters on multicolor silk-screening and color matching and blending make it possible for anyone to produce fine, well-registered prints. 141 illustrations.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Barely fifty years old, silk screen printing or serigraphy has been adopted as a commercial and an artistic process by thousands of enthusiastic professional and amateur craftsmen throughout the world. In this volume, one of silkscreen's foremost teachers and practitioners explains the entire process from the construction of the frame to the moment of printing your first impression. You are shown how to select or assemble every piece of equipment needed: the frame which holds the silk, the fabric and its attachment to the frame, the base on which the print will rest, stencil knives, guides, the squeegee which forces the paint through the silk, drying racks, and other items. All five of the most general and useful techniques with respect to stencils are described: the paper stencil method, the block-out method, the Tusche stencil method, the film stencil method, and the photographic stencil method.

Step-by-step instructions detail each technique. Chapters on multicolor silkscreening and color matching and blending make it possible for anyone to produce fine, well-registered prints. In fact, you can use this book as a complete-to-the-last detail home course for almost every facet of this important modern art form. A special section covers common difficulties and shows you how to reduce or eliminate them. 96 detailed figures cover every step in the process while 45 plates illustrate work by such renowned artists as Philip Hicken, Harry Schokler, W. Colescott, Riva Helfond, Anthony Velonis, Amelia Hammer, Ray Euffa, and many others who have exhibited at the National Serigraph Society and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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