A recent vase stencil design?
Yeah… I would say that I not only picked out another of my vase stencils but I have also made quite a challenge for myself. Before doing any of this vase printing I had already made over 7 or 8 vase stencils whilst being in China because I already knew what I was gonna do the time I got back to england.
One of my vase stencils, I would say is the most complicated of them all to try and print because of the high detail around the boarder of this vase. Somehow I had to try workout how I am gonna get this onto acetate to print with.
How did this new vase stencil work out?
Well first of all, I had to trim more off the original stencil to try getting it to look like a vase shape rather than a vase cut out of the paper. Once the edges around the vase were trimmed off, it looked more of a real vase and was ready to be scanned in the printer to be printed onto acetate.
This next part was very tricky for Glen the technician because he had to divide the vase up into 3 bits of acetate. It wasn’t easy to do this but Glen manage to line up all the 3 bits of acetate together to make up the full vase stencil and was ready to be projected onto silkscreen with the photo emulsion.
Next plan of action for this Design?
Whilst waiting for this new vase stencil to develope I have already started to print the background of this vase design in different colours so that i can be prepared for the second stencil to go on top. After the the vase stencil has been successfully transferred onto the silkscreen, Glen will wash off the remains of the photo emulsion and then I can prepare to print through it. In this post you will clearly see the successful results.
