Discuss your creativity and the art supplies you use to express it here!| Beginning at Screen Printing | | Ok, so I have decided that I need to take up screen printing. I'm not going to buy a $5000 machine and rack system, but I would like to do some basic stuff in my basement or back yard.Anyone have experiance with this?Are there any good "screens" that you can use that are not the specific ones you buy. (One person said old curtains work well, but there are a lot of styles of curtains out there.What are some good resources? | |
| | Screen Printing | | I have started looking in to t-shirt screen printing. My son has some great ideas for t-shirt sayings but I have looked for information and can not find an answer to a question. Is it okay to put the name of a celebrity on a t-shirt? Like a football player or baseball player? Is anyone else interested in screen printing or starting their own business? | |
| | | Making T-shirts | | Has anyone made t-shirts before using t-shirt transfers, an iron, and a design to print out on the t-shirt transfer? If so, How did they turn out? Do you think they are reliable enough to sell? I made some and boy did I get compliments on them, but I dont want to sell them until I get the right equiptment so they can last longer. | |
| | Cheap & easy silk screening tutorial - Make your own shirts. | | Well, a little while ago I decided that I was going to attempt to silk screen. While researching it, I stumbled over this tutorial; http://community.livejournal.com/craftgrrl/3674467.htmlAll credit for this tutorial goes to CraftGrrl, I merely stumbled over it in google. It looks great, and really cheap, too. Instead of going this route, I ended up picking up a speedball silk screening kit, but, this is certainly an option if you're wanting to make your own shirts. So, I figured I'd post it. | |
| | Frustration at work | | I work at a custom screen printing shop and one of our big projects every spring is an on-site t-shirt sale at a couple of youth basketball tournaments. The first one is in March and the second in April but I (as the graphic artist) start thinking of designs to put on the shirts we will sell in January after we get through the holiday rush. Typically they feature a basketball in some capacity and a catchy phrase. I am not a big basketball fan so I look for phrases on the internet and redesign around them. One of the tournaments is an all-girls tournament so I always throw in a couple of girly phrases, but the other people I work with vote against them because they don't think anyone will buy them. I think they get sold all over the internet, so someone is obviously buying them. Some of the ones I have used in the past are:You say "Play like a Girl" like it's a bad thing.
You just[i]wish[/i] you could shoot like a Girl.
I am the Queen and this is my Court (with a picture of a basketball court)
How does it feel to be beat by a Girl?If you were a pre-teen girl, would you spend $10 on any of those as a souvenir at a basketball tournament you were playing in? | |
| | Printing my own decks | | Ok so my new project is printing my own graphics on decks. It will be a lot cheeper to buy blanks and paint them myself, so I thought I would give it a go. Do people prefer heat transfere or screen printing. What are the pro's and cons? | |
| | H-h-help! First "real" assignment in my mail this morning! | | I honestly don't know how I managed to discover this gem: www.wordsofworth.co.uk They are darn near impossible to google up by accident, so I think it must have been via a recommendation on another writer's blog page. This is a superior writers' agency - very, VERY different to AC or Helium. The deal is, they have a cache of specialist clients in various sector industries. When a client asks for copy for their website,ezine or company blog WoW select a specialist writer from their lists and give them the job. They expect a minimum of 80 short articles a month if you're accepted - but they pay damn well. I mean, DAMN well. Like, the taxman would have to know about it. Quality, rather than keyword driven. No plagiarism-must-pass-copyscape here. This is the real McCoy.The site requests submissions from good writers, and I was interested enough to apply. One of the things you have to do, is type up a short paragraph about yourself saying why you think you'd be perfect for their team. Evidently I made a good impression, because back came an email at the weekend requesting I submit a "sample article" on the subject they have assigned me. I made the rather rash decision of ticking... | |
| | Why is appreciation too much to ask for? | | In the last several months I have been feeling less and less appreciated in my job. I work in a screen printing shop and we have a couple hundred white and grey T-shirts hanging out in storage for "walk-in" customers. They were a mess, no one could find anything so I volunteered to spend the better part of three days sorting and counting and organizing. Not only did I not get a "thank you" for three days of sitting on a concrete floor in a storage room with no direct heat, I go back to find something later and someone had pulled out random shirts for something and rather than taking 60 seconds to fold them back the way they found them, they had just wadded them up and thrown them on top of the pile. And not even the right pile.And it's not just that, although that was enough to make me want to scream. There are a thousand little things like that every week. I'm not looking for fanfare or a parade, just a simple, "Hey, thanks. That really needed to be done." But instead it almost seems like my boss is annoyed with me for doing these things in an effort to A) make everyone's jobs easier and B) find something to do because we've been really slow lately.Has anyone else... | |
| | Do you really like your job, or do you really hate your job? | | I remember working at my first Silk Screen printing job, it was good, met a few people, still friends to this day. Learned alot about theprocess. After about 4 years, the place closed down and I was working at another Silk Screen place, laid off from that job and on to third and final Silk Screen place. So in all, I have been in the Silk Screen business close to 20 years. It wasn't still I was at the third place I worked for I started to hate the place, because it started to get so boring, smelling the inks we had to use, boss and manger etc...After getting laid off from the third Silk Screen place, the boss did me a huge favor lol. | |
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