This last month has been spent twiddling around with wine and rust. I had a metal bar of dubious origin sitting in Lidl's finest red Conde wine for a few weeks and decided to use a viscosity modifier to turn the dark red liquid into a gel and see if it would screen print.
I didn't have a screen with an image prepared so I thought I'd use things to block out sections instead. What I found floating around the studios were offcuts of some plastic vertical blind and a mesh (for allowing excess oil to drip off deep fried foods, I don't know why I have this). I laid down a piece of cotton sheet, then the blinds and mesh and then the screen.
Once the screen was lifted, I removed the blocking items, placed a second piece of cotton sheet onto the table and pressed the remaining gel through the screen. This gave a sort of negative to the first print. Once dried, I ironed the sheet, which changed the colours to a more rusty shade. I left a bit unironed in the middle so you can see the shade difference.
 | As there was quite a bit of gel on the blocking items, I placed them gel side up onto another table, placed a piece of cotton sheet over them and used a rolling pin to transfer onto the cloth. |
| And what if I tried superimposing stages? So I repeated the process, making the first print and placing the blocking items onto another table but this time, reusing the printed cloth to roll down onto the blocking items for a second transfer. Ooh, quite like that. |  |
| That leaves the second pass of the screen to come out like so: Note: The more you iron, the more visible the details become. It's like being in the dark room and watching the images appear |  |
OK can't stop there. I tried all three stages onto the same bit of cotton sheet. I threw in a bit of net curtain for good measure:
Stage 1 - blocked print
Satge 2 - blocking items onto another table and gel transfer using the rolling pin
Stage 3 - back under the screen at 180° to the original print
A little overcharged but quite interesting. Can I do anything with that?
Cliffhanger... !
Stage 1 - blocked print
Satge 2 - blocking items onto another table and gel transfer using the rolling pin
Stage 3 - back under the screen at 180° to the original print
A little overcharged but quite interesting. Can I do anything with that?
Cliffhanger... !
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