Silk Screen! :D

For this alternative process I decided that I wanted to create a silk screen. I thought that because I did one in grade 8 it was going to be easy... wow, I was so wrong. First of all, in grade 8 we did some sort of short cut that  I really don't remember, so what I learned back then I really couldn't remember. And second of all, every picture  that I ever take I can always find something wrong with it. So this means that I had to go through every picture that I have taken all semester and decide which one I hatted the least which was a lot harder then it sounds.

I ended up choosing a photo that I took in graffiti alley when we were in downtown Toronto for a photo filed trip. The photo is of Sara Kelly taking a photo of graffiti in front of a wall covered in graffiti. Then when I printed my photo off on a acetate in the cad lab I realized that there were weird bubbles going through the middle. So I ended up having to get it re-printed. However, before I had them re-printed my friend Rachel brought up a good point. She said "why don't you print it off as inverted too so that you can use more than one colour". At that very moment I realized that she was both right and a genius. So I followed her advice and printed off both a normal version of my photo and an inverted one too.

Then, using the lighting desk I was able to transfer both of my images onto my silk screen. However, this is when I started to have trouble. What I did not realize was how long it would take to wash the silk screen enough for me to see the photo. It took me 45 min with a sink filled with weird art supplies and a sponge. 

My absolute favorite part about making the silk screen was actually transferring the image onto my shirt. But before that, I had to test it out on a piece of paper. Because I was using both the inverted image an the normal image, I decide that I wanted to use not just two, but three coulours. I thought that this would be cool because my photo was of graffiti. So because I was putting the silk screen on a black t-shirt I used white fabric paint for the inverted image and a really cool blue and a dark purple for the normal image. All in all, this was one of my favorite processes to do because I think that the way that it turned out is really cool.