Monday, November 30, 2009
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
How to print a t-shirts like a bum
First you run all over town trying to find a place that has transparencies, and of course all the kinkos are out so you have to end up at that hell hole Target Copy. After waiting 8 minutes for PS to open, you ask to switch computers, then you pay way too much to get what you need to make this.
Then you burn your screen thats been stinking up your closet for the past couple of days, i forgot to photograph that step :( Once that's done you blow it out with a hose or a shower or a pressure washer and hope for the best! This is pretty much where you either get really happy or start to hate screen printing. I didn't photograph that either, I'm not too good at this. But it went well, and boy did it make me love printing shirts. Now you let that shit dry in the sun or on an overcast day in your bedroom.
Cool huh!?
Then you print it and I did a shitty job documenting that too so use your imagination. With big designs like this you have to use shotty makeshift oversized pallets, one of these days ill go to a hardware store and make one that works a little better. When you are all done pulling ink and making a mess you'll get something that looks like this...
Ta-DAH! whooooa cool. Not sure what these shirts were for exactly but judging by the design they gave me it looks pretty awesome. Well, there you go, now you know every tiny detail about printing shirts, who needs school when you have the internet, naw mean?
Then you burn your screen thats been stinking up your closet for the past couple of days, i forgot to photograph that step :( Once that's done you blow it out with a hose or a shower or a pressure washer and hope for the best! This is pretty much where you either get really happy or start to hate screen printing. I didn't photograph that either, I'm not too good at this. But it went well, and boy did it make me love printing shirts. Now you let that shit dry in the sun or on an overcast day in your bedroom.
Cool huh!?
Then you print it and I did a shitty job documenting that too so use your imagination. With big designs like this you have to use shotty makeshift oversized pallets, one of these days ill go to a hardware store and make one that works a little better. When you are all done pulling ink and making a mess you'll get something that looks like this...
Ta-DAH! whooooa cool. Not sure what these shirts were for exactly but judging by the design they gave me it looks pretty awesome. Well, there you go, now you know every tiny detail about printing shirts, who needs school when you have the internet, naw mean?
Making a mess
I printed up some patches a couple days ago because I realized that I've never printed without a press, it was time to get punk.
R.L.Stine, Bartman, Witch Group... I need to make new designs these were from a successful but ugly halftone test.
R.L.Stine, Bartman, Witch Group... I need to make new designs these were from a successful but ugly halftone test.
Friday, November 13, 2009
New Shirts This Winter...
I'm going to have some new shirts for sale soon. They will all be printed on organic cotton with water based inks and hand printed in the basement of the mansion. All the designs are pulled from stacks of old polaroids, so it's like a photo diary you can wear, is that weird?
gnar gnar
my girls
good luck
gnar gnar
my girls
good luck
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