Silk Screen Printing Artist

Now you can try screen printing at home.
Silk screen printing artist. Perhaps the most well known screen printing artist in history pop artist andy warhol first used the technique during the 1960s. It has been used for more than 100 years in the commercial and artistic sector and is mainly used for printing images and designs on t shirts tote bags paper wood. Warhol is known for producing photo image stencils of celebrity portraits and transferring them from the silver screen to the silk screen by printing them repeatedly in a variety of bright colors. And make sure to share links to other poster artists and screen print heavies in the comments below.
Screen printing is a printing technique where a mesh is used to transfer ink onto a substrate except in areas made impermeable to the ink by a blocking stencil a blade or squeegee is moved across the screen to fill the open mesh apertures with ink and a reverse stroke then causes the screen to touch the substrate momentarily along a line of contact. In the 1950s fine artists began to use the process. During the 1960s american screen printing artists such as roy lichtenstein and andy warhol popularized the technique by using it to mass produce graphic style prints in bright colors. If there is ever an arena where the printmaker is able to play and experiment it is for sure with the screen printing technique allowing a diverse range of surfaces for production and with it breaking up the border between the consumerism arena and the bubble of fine art editions screen prints also known as silkscreens since their big entrance to the world of art in 1960 s are continuing.
Silkscreen also called serigraphy sophisticated stenciling technique for surface printing in which a design is cut out of paper or another thin strong material and then printed by rubbing rolling or spraying paint or ink through the cut out areas it was developed about 1900 and originally used in advertising and display work. Silk screen printing is one of the most popular printing techniques and is the most used by companies when printing designs onto products of different sizes and materials. Part 2 to follow. Give these silkscreen heavies a gander and let us know what you think.