December 3, 2004

I managed to get some bits and pieces today to enable me to do some samples… Some white screenprinting ink, some transparency film, and some grey primer to simulate the panel surface. I messed around with various exposures, and I think I overexposed most of them, including the one I decided to try and print with.

Anyways, I spent some time on the computer making up a panel, and then applying some words and lines in the appropriate places. I tried a few fonts, and I liked this one the best. I may need to go a little bigger though.

In the sample below, it’s not quite as nice as I’d like. In fact it’s crap. Although, I learned a bit from this.

The second sample came out a lot better, although the screen was still over exposed. I’m using the transparency films for the positive, and it seems like the exposure times are a lot less than I’ve been doing. Here, the ink went through much cleaner, apart from near the end of the word “strobe” and the line above it. Some of the other letters got a bit filled in too, again due to over exposure. I’m a lot happier with this, and I reckon with a few more tries I’ll have it down.