The Big Draw
Thanks to The Big Draw” which aims to get everyone drawing I got a chance to try my hand at screen printing in a workshop held at The Tolbooth Stirling .
Our tutor, Andrew Mackenzie managed in three hours to give us an intensive introduction to the process which ended up with us all walking away with several screen prints each! quite an achievement!
We used the current exhibition of Aladsair Gray’s prints as source material. After an introduction and brief history of screen printing we were taken to the exhibition and given quarter of an hour to draw an image from which we would later develope a stencil for screen printing. I must admit that I entered the workshop feeling a bit sceptical: how on earth could be do a screen print from scratch in such a short time? Andrew proved me wrong. I m now an enthusiast of screen printing and want to find out more.
