Category Archives: Screen Prints (Serigraphs)

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I had a good day on Saturday at the Faultline Life Drawing session and did a bunch of drawings in the morning that turned out well. In the afternoon I thought I would experiment a little and try drawing directly on the screen and print them later, The screen’s smooth surface made it a little tricky to draw on, but it was still pretty easy. I used Caran D’ache water soluble crayons and compressed charcoal to draw on the silk screens. I used some screen filler to block the ink on a couple of the screens as well. Printing was pretty straight forward, I used a transparent base without any pigment on a couple of the charcoal drawings and they look pretty good. I mixed some bright red on some of the other prints. They didn’t turn out perfect, but I would call it a success. I’m more interested in mixing this technique with some others, rather than using it by itself. It has some exciting potential for sure.

The drawings are 5 minutes in length and under. I find there are a lot of little surprises in the quick ones, and the models can push the poses a lot more. I’ve been tearing out little blank sheets of paper from larger crappy drawings and doing drawings about a minute in length on them. I’ve been bagging them up and have them available in my studio. Most of the small ones are under $10. I’ll have a ton for Faultline’s Open Studios on November 10th which is coinciding with a building wide sale at High Street Lofts.