I made my first foray into silkscreening over the weekend. Such a fun process! I thought about trying the Print Gocco (I've seen such fantastic stuff made from it on Loobylu, Craftlog, Liquid Sky Arts, etc) but I didn't want to be limited to such a small print area (at least, the one I could afford had a small print area! :> ).
For about the same startup cost I nabbed myself a nice, basic set of materials and a 10x12 screen. I used a design from a painting I was working on last weekend and transferred it to a sheet of acetate using the Rapidographs I so lovingly restored:
Then I fudged my way through exposing a screen with the image. Photo emulsion is fun to work with - its exactly like turqoise Pepto Bismol.
You can see the entire Flickr set here.
your print turned out lovely!!! this post is making me totally regret not buying a 70s screen printing book i found this past weekend. D'OH!
Was it this book, by any chance? This is the one I have. I was skeptical at first because it looks awfully dated, but the techniques inside are exactly the same as you'd use today. Plus there are instructions for building a lot of the materials yourself, which I think I will end up using..