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Screenprinting: The Ultimate Studio Guide from Sketchbook to Squeegee
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Screenprinting is in the midst of a popular revival among beginners, students, hobbyists and experts alike, but there are very few recent publications that give actual fundamental information on its techniques and processes. This book provides the missing manual on this very popular practice. It includes iInspirational step-by-steps with leading artists, illustrators and designers, including Ben Eine and Rob Ryan. In each step-by-step original work is created to showcase a key process or technique such as hand-cut stencils, colour blending and monoprinting. The information on materials and techniques, along with tips, insights and troubleshooting, will ensure today’s creatively minded screenprinters will be able to produce eye-catching work of their own. The book also gives valuable advice to the budding screenprinter on how to organize an exhibition or screenprinting event and promote and sell their work.
Deliciously fresh and visual, with specially commissioned photographs and written by a vibrant, innovative group working and teaching at the very epicentre of the contemporary screenprinting scene, this book is the complete modern guide for screenprinters of all levels of knowledge and skill, and will have a vital presence in their studios and workshops.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1st edition (26 Oct. 2017) |
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| Language | English |
| Paperback | 288 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0500293201 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0500293201 |
| Dimensions | 21 x 3 x 29 cm |
by miss k a warrior
Brilliantly explained
by Berni wincks
They different print projects give you a good insight into the world of screen printing.
by Green Ghost
Terrific book this is amazing for anybody that already knows how to Screenprint maybe Textile that wants to print Paper or maybe Paper Screen Printer that wants to do Textile or even a Novice. Everything is set out so clear shows you hope to create artwork properly to the actual printing.
One of the greatest quirks of the book I found though is it introduces some of the Screen Printing Artists but instead of like other books that go OOOOOH look at what I can do and basically a gallery of all there works this talks about them what they do how they got into the art and then SHOWS you step by step how they do what they do. A great example Ben Eine probably the best know artist and pal to a certain street artist showing how he creates his masterpieces and Evil Ink to .
What it doesn’t show is prolific Artist Darren “UNORTHODOX” G who is known to use screen print medium would have been keen to see how he creates some of his art pieces as I’m told he gets invited to Print Studio London every so often not sure if its the Dalston one or not.
Amazing book would be great to have been given an Ebook version as well hand for on train etc.
by Ann Scott
You must buy this book if you’re learning screen printing or even if you’re experienced. Worth it’s weight in gold! It clearly explains how to do each step of the process using photos and screen shots. Covers many different ways of working.
by Alex Beharrell
Was very happy with this book!! Perfect for starting out (although the exposure part is taken if you use or have access to a big UV unit… Not a hobby kit) but you can pick up some great tips and things. This book covers basic photoshop for use with screen printing, a bunch of different techniques to try and some case studies with various artists 🙂 it’s a gorgeous book even just to flick through.
by Barbara Lawson
I bought this as a present for my brother in law as he’s gotten into painting in this last year and lived it. His style made me think he’d enjoy a go at screen printing, and he said this book is very readable and motivating-highly recommended
by Lara
Beautiful book, great detail and illustration. IF you have Studio style chemical printing in mind. I think as an absolute beginner (me), a book on stencil screen printing is more appropriate. Aim to be as good as those in the book but for now little more basic work for me using stencils.
by JMcG
I love new books on printmaking; I’ve been screenprinting for 50 years and collecting books on the technique for 49 of them. (Stephen Russ – Practical Screenprinting , Studio Vista, 1969 – was the first) The Ultimate Studio Guide looked promising and I was able to buy one from Amazon for half price – slightly damaged!
What are the good points: It is lavishly illustrated, with full page pix of a variety of artists work and some good sequences showing how these results were achieved. With over 280 large format pages that’s a lot of pictures, with bold graphics to subdivide the book and it’s a nice book to handle and browse through. The emphasis is heavily on contemporary printmakers.
I’m not quite sure who the book is aimed at. The early chapters on colour mixing, printing and printing mistakes are clearly aimed at the beginner but many of the examples shown later in the book require possession of Photoshop CS, some advanced skills and some pretty sophisticated access to artwork printing-out facilities. The printing set up shown in the book are the kind of facilities that you might access through places like Print Club London or the public access print studios in other major cities.
I liked the later sections on “How to Put On A Show”. This would be very useful to a young artist getting into making and publishing their own prints after art school. In fact I can see this book finding a home on an art school table – its already got ink splatters and smears as part of the graphic presentation
My criticisms of this book are: the lack of specific guidance on paper, ink and suppliers of printmaking sundries. Some of the technical guidance is over elaborate – on registration for instance. In the sections on artist spotlight it seems perverse to place Susie Wright’s hand-made positive prints at the rear of that section, as they are the most easily understood in terms of technique. The authors state that they only recommend water-based inks but fail to explain the particular qualities that these inks bring to the process, i.e. transparency.
Two older books offer more practical help: Water-based Screen-printing by Steve Hoskins, A & C Black, 2001 and ‘Screenprinting: The Complete Water-Based system, Adam and Robertson, Thames and Hudson, 2004. The latter book is not well reviewed on Amazon, it is not a beginner’s book but it has served me well for 15 years.