Silver Case

This late afternoon I was looking for a project to work on and decided to play some more with my Print Gocco kit.  Last time I left it, I was using print gocco fabric paints and working on stencilled t-shirts.  I resumed my prototyping work today and figured a number of tricks.

•  You need to swab the squeegee over the stencil/print several times in order to get good ink passthrough and absorption. It will tend to make the lines a bit thicker, but overall it’s a better result. I pres fairly hard, too.
• Messy as hell. Be meticulous in keeping ink off the print side of the screen.
• My Canon bubblejet printer seems to make prints that are very usable for gocco master-making.
• I tried to clean and save my print screens last time, but I find that they were subtly broken in some cases — air blisters formed between the screening material and the thin plastic layer.  This means the ink presses through in something of a blur.
• khaki = 2-3 parts orange, 1 part green. If it’s too dark, a tap of lemon yellow lightens it up a bit.

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