samuelshoemaker72: =] Welcome to my digital docum3ntation, Dansby! Now, please visit Sets>Print Final
samuelshoemaker72: Painted crate with sand and uncovered note.
samuelshoemaker72: I added my third and fourth coat with an inexpensive latex eggshell white paint.
samuelshoemaker72: The bigger embossings were almost a 1/16 of an inch deep into the wood.
samuelshoemaker72: I took the crate to the super shop and sanded down the burnt embossing.
samuelshoemaker72: I thought white primer spray paint would add a nice matte second coat, but I still didn't like the burnt embossing stamps on the sides. Security was also angry about me spray painting on campus
samuelshoemaker72: I tried painting the crate with my white acrylic paint, but I didn't have enough to do a second coat and I thought it looked unprofessional.
samuelshoemaker72: A local wine distribution warehouse gave me an old wine crate for my project
samuelshoemaker72: Final prints.
samuelshoemaker72: Cropping the borders using the tear bar as a straight edge.
samuelshoemaker72: There were only a few marks I wanted to scratch off of this print, but I used the felt tip pen to clean up some lines on the "highway" in the bottom right hand corner.
samuelshoemaker72: Registering my screen with my aligned transparency. I am only doing one pull for this screen without any test prints, because my screen has a tendency to bleed quickly and I only have one edition to print.
samuelshoemaker72: Blowing out my second screen.
samuelshoemaker72: I used an artist's eraser to clean up smudges and used an exacto knife to scratch off smaller ink marks.
samuelshoemaker72: My text has a little bit of a ghost image near the left side of the print because I pulled my screen twice. Cleaning up a bald spot near the left edge with a paint brush. I applied too much paint on, but I was able to clean it up later with my exacto knif
samuelshoemaker72: I tried registering my print this way. I didn't have proper tabs and it was nearly impossible to register this way anyways, so I moved it and printed horizontally.
samuelshoemaker72: I aligned my transparency on my screen for registration. I weighed the paper down for a few hours to get rid of the bend in the paper.
samuelshoemaker72: I cut each individual print out before screen printing, using an exacto knife. I left the borders on to deal with later.
samuelshoemaker72: I printed my two designs without the text screen shots from yourtextworld so I could screen print them. I printed the sandbag design with/without the text for comparison and so I could have a back up plan.
samuelshoemaker72: I started by printing my photographs with the large format printer.
samuelshoemaker72: Digital file for "Dog World"
samuelshoemaker72: Digital file for "I Feel So Isolated"