The weather has been chilly here in New England, and I have a big pile of tea bags.
I love the fragile decay.
I have used tea bags for printmaking, collage and some sewing projects. But the pile is so big, I needed a process that would consume a bunch of bags.
Thermofax screen printing is the answer.
This is what I did:
- Suspend judgment & play
- Gather lots of tea bags and fabric for printing
- Set up my workspace
- Padded surface covered with plastic
- Credit card for my squeegee
- Damp rag for messy fingers
- Big table for laying out my prints
- and then pull prints
- I used brown, gold and a bit of white
Thermofax screen printing is a great way to add line elements, text and delicate details.
What types of images would you like to make into a thermofax screen for your artwork? Tell me in the comments section above.
Happy printing!
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hi Linda! I enjoy your blog and email n’letter; thanks for sharing!
I would love to have my own Thermofax to experiment with so I could learn
which images work best converted to thermofax screen.
I have a couple of photographs that would work, one of my granddaughter
skipping and one of my son dunking the basketball.
The most exciting images that I would like to have made into a screen are
Monoprints I made ofdried up, bubbly gelatin plates. I printed in black paint
and gesso on card and copy paper. I am crazy for these prints! The first was
pure chance and serendipity; I have repeated the bubbly gelatin plate, let it dry
out and taken prints from it. Both groups of prints are very cool. I would
like to have thermofax screens of some of the best of the bunch.
SuzanneG in NC