Revisiting the Face

We thought the journey was over, but, surprise surprise, here we are again. 

This past week we have revisited the face. Take a look at what we did.

The plan was to print the final knitted face on t-shirts.

To do this we used rubylith. An acetate sheet with a ruby coloured layer that peels off.

Each group would prepare the printing for only their colour. As the pink group we prepared our grid to show all the pink blocks.

We cut out all the spaces except our pink blocks which were left as red blocks on the acetate sheet.

This is done by placing the rubylith sheet on top of the grid and cutting lightly through the top red layer of the sheet. The unwanted parts of the design is then peeled off.

Here is our finished design for the pink blocks.

This was then transferred to a silkscreen.

 We struggled quite a bit with the carousel, but eventually placed all the screens of the different groups on the carousel with as perfect a registration as we possibly could. What a challenge!

Finally we started printing.

And the results were great:D

As the first group of students to make use of the printing carousel, we are proud of the outcome this project has delivered and plan use of this process again.