Photoshoot tomorrow!
Hi again! Our studio photoshoot is tomorrow, and we’re looking for people to drop in from 12-2pm and pretend to be workshop participants. We’ll feed you pizza!
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April events at Wachiay Studio!
Hi friends, it’s Emily here from Wachiay Studio. We are planning some activities in early April and want to invite any of you who are around Comox Valley to come hang with us! These events all take place at the studio, the address is 1625 McPhee Avenue and our entrance is in the back parking…
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Print-a-Palooza: Printing Weekend Apr 8-10
Hello! We wanted to share with you an upcoming event at Wachiay Studio. Print-a-Palooza: a weekend-long print extravaganza! Participants will have full use of our studio space and hands-on support from the Wachiay Studio team for this self-directed weekend of print. Please have artwork print-ready (or really close) prior to the start of the…
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Mary and Agi Exposure and Halftone Practice
We used one of Agi’s designs to attempt to make a halftone image. We found the lighter colours didn’t apply as well through the exposure process. Agi also discovered adobe illustrator for Ipad doesn’t really have options for dither or halftone. Procreate on the other hand has a silkscreening half tone option. We also put…
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week two reflection
Collage/exposure/printing well……this was a HUGE adventure/disaster and learning curve for me. I coated my screen, put them it a dark box and and did my first exposure. When I went to rinse, all the emulsion came off too, except for a couple of spots. I ended up reclaiming. SO on my second and third tries…
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2. The Screen: Frame & Mesh
Use this space to discuss Step 2: The Screen: Frame & Mesh Ask any questions, report any problems, and share inspiration. The Screen is a key component of the process, and the part that gives screen printing its name. The screen consists of a strongly made wood or metal frame, and a fine woven mesh…
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3. The Stencil: Coating and Photostencils
Use this space to discuss Step 3: The Stencil: Coating and Photostencils Ask any questions, report any problems, and share inspiration. The Screen is a key component of the process, and the part that gives sA stencil is a thin material or coating on the mesh that carries the image to be printed. The stencil…
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4. Exposure & Washout
Use this space to discuss Step 4: Exposure & Washout Ask any questions, report any problems, and share inspiration. The Exposure & Washout is where your art gets transferred onto a screen to create a stencil that can be printed. All of your work from the previous steps come together. Getting a good exposure is…
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5. Ink & Stock
Use this space to discuss Step 5: Ink & Stock Ask any questions, report any problems, and share inspiration. INKS used in screen printing are more varied and complex than those used in other printing processes because of the wide range of different materials the modern screenprinter is asked to print on. Art prints on…
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6. Make Ready
Use this space to discuss Step 6: Make Ready Ask any questions, report any problems, and share inspiration. MAKE READY is the name given to the point in the screen printing process where you are preparing to start your print run, and assembling all the items and tools you will need. Like a pre-flight check…
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7. Print
Use this space to discuss Step 7: Print Ask any questions, report any problems, and share inspiration. You are fully prepped and ready to start printing. Let’s do this. The trick to a successful print is repeatability; being able to perform the same function over and over without variation.
8. Reclaim a Screen
Use this space to discuss Step 8: Reclaim a Screen Ask any questions, report any problems, and share inspiration. Once a stencil has been used in production, the screen must be reclaimed and readied for its next use. One of the most effective ways you can increase the life of your screens is simply by…
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Studio Night!
We’re excited to launch open studio nights. Learn more and sign up here: https://screentheworld.org/studionight/
coating a screen with a squeegee
The grand master Michel Caza showed us this technique – he has used it for years, and has so many awards for fine detail printing they lost count….anyway, put your screen face down. I put tape on either end, and along the sides where the squeegee end runs – just to keep it all clean.…
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SQUEEGEERAMA: August 20-22
IT’S BACK! Friday, Saturday and Sunday | August 20-21-22 Wachiay Studio on Vancouver Island Squeegeerama is an annual squeegee-fest held at Wachiay Studio. We invite guest artists, to share their ideas and techniques. The studio and staff assist participants to print their projects on a variety of materials (paper, stencil, film, ink, etc supplied), and people…
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My 3 ideas
I have these designs that I’d like to print. I know the multi-coloured skull design is a bit ambitious but I think I can do it! I have an idea to make brand new baby sets. I’d like to put my bear paw design on a swaddle blanket and add a couple of other products…
Hagwil Yaan Mood Board
A little behind on uploading for the Mood Board assignment. This past week was a heavy one. Creating is a healing space for me, so this assignment was a helpful space to process for Lisa and I. Hagwil yaan n’siipnsku. Walk gently my friends. Algandi Luk’odn. You are not alone.
215 Children
We acknowledge and mourn the 215 children that never made it home from the Kamloops residential school. We know that the fate of these children is not an isolated atrocity. Though many residential school survivors have been telling these stories for decades, we hope that this discovery will help to support the truth and bring…
Mood Board
This was a fun project! Looking forward to making more! For this one, I combined some of my photography with my paintings. Many layers of different opacity etc. I forced myself to stop and leave it, and just upload as is, even though I feel like I can easily spend many more hours playing around…
Nature Exposed Mood Board
I have picked out a brand name, style, and overall direction. Nature Exposed Art that dives into the natural and scientific world, revealing the beauty of science. Mood Board Unfortunately, I have not done a lot of screenprinting this week, but I have been extensively working on my brand logo and other designs. …
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Ghosts are Haunting Meeeeee!!
Such potential! These ghosts, i tell yah. Very frustrating. I haven’t had much success with my screen. My textile screen is still prepped tho so i will be working on a textile design and put this to the side for awhile. Sad face. I have been working on this design digitally as well. It is…
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2 color print
I tweaked an oil painting that I started long ago. Worked in Photoshop. My drawing needs improvement. I will definitely try a shorter exposure time for the next project. I lost a lot of detail in the hummingbird feathers and bleeding hearts, but I loved the process! Having fun!!Learning lots! 🙂
T-Birds etc…
O.k. We successfully coated and shot our new screens, starting with the step exposure. Successful step exposure print with notes added Exposing Thunderbird 1 screen. We decided to put both colours separations on one screen. Close up of 2 colour print. Because the printer would not make the transparency dark enough, I reworked the film…
Week 5
So I finally got to do some prints from the last couple weeks of trying. I was doing awesome after setting up until the plastic clamp I was using to prop ny screen up decided to break off and fling my rope and everything. I was able to keep the shirt free of ink splatter…
Logo-No go. Register attempt/Business Logo.
Emulsion went on blotchy?, have not had that problem before…didn’t seem to affect burn or wash out. Printed my logo to clear stencil, seemed to work this time. Highlighted and filled areas in and around logo I wanted to be blue. A bit tricky and time consuming with fine tip sharpie… Had problem with register…
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Week five
Had better luck with the Wayi Wah clock image when using digital means. Screened up some kids tees, one ended up a bit blurry not sure why?? Lisa and I collaborated on a design based on a story I shared with her of Blue berry picking with elders. We digitized it because we seem to…
Week 5
I’ve completed a 2 color print! But before learning about the useful bullseye! I didn’t incorporate it in this print but I can 100% for sure guarantee I will next time! It was tough every print I had to not flood, and check the print for alignment every time through the screen, because each print…
Week 3 reflection
I think I got 2 and 3 mixed and mashed so I ended up doing a hand drawn design and a collage sort of design in the same print! But I finished the actual stencil and printing last module! as for reclaiming, I’ve made a home reclaiming set up out of my bathroom, and I…
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Week four
I played around with Inkscape outlining images of ancestors and language. Learned a lot about how much there is to learn from this process. We weren’t sure how to digitize Lisa’s sketch design so she decided to try to trace it out using the pen’s, but it didn’t burn through the exposure. Not…
Two colour printing
It was an exciting challenge to make these two colour prints on two tshirts and five aprons. There was a few corrections I had to make when printing because certain parts were not lining up perfectly so i had to tape spots off to allow it to dry and reprint the missing parts so it…
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Experimenting
I managed to Reclaim both screens, then coating seems to be getting easier. The first screen (156) I tried a grouse wing fan, and a sharpie design on the bottom of a moose, the grouse wing didn’t turn out but the moose design looked ok, but I made a critical error and it pretty obvious…
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Print Austin – All Together Now
Operating within the traditional lands of the K’omoks First Nation on Vancouver Island, Canada, Andymac and Wachiay Studio crew filmed a four-part demonstration on the screen printing process over the month of PrintAustin. This video serves as the final part to this demo. Watch part 1-3 to this demo: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_On… This video also showcases the…
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Final Screen Printing class post 😀
Hi! Just thought I would attach the recent screenprinting I have completed! I am too scared to do more shirts yet; but I will do that once I feel a bit more comfortable. As you can see I had a bit of difficulty with printing on the canvas totes but that’s okay! Printing still not…
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The NEXT COHORT – Training Opportunity Screenprinting for Entrepreneurs
Training Opportunity Screenprinting for Entrepreneurs Have you ever thought about starting your own business? Do you have a sketchbook full of designs waiting to come to life? Are you looking to increase the production of your artwork? Keep reading! Wachiay Friendship Centre is excited to announce the Spring session of our online training program, Screenprinting for…
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Welcome to the Discussion Board
Welcome to the new Screen the World Discussion Board. DISCUSSION BOARD This is the spot for members, past students, and instructors to continue chatting and discussing. Share everything and anything you want – this space is your space.
nism̓a run of prints
This week we pulled another run of prints, “nism̓a” (land), run of 50. We pulled them on the 156 screen, which worked way better than the 110. We also removed the ship from the previous design, as I did not like the amount of detail that was allowed on this size print (11″x 14″ size…
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Some of the things we’ve been doing
We are really excited to try out the new 230 screens we have on the way in order to make our 2-colour print again, but in the mean time we’ve been up to a couple of other adventures. There was a loss in our Tla-o-qui-aht community last week, and we wanted to make a print…
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Week 5 – An attempt at two colour
This week we attempted a two-colour print, of a design I drew on the iPad. We realized that the free program wasn’t high enough resolution. We tried a couple other free ones before taking everyone’s advice and buying Procreate. My wife used Procreate to clean up the design and divide it into two layers for…
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Reflection Week 2, Part 2 – Sandy
Tonight I printed on 5 t-shirts and on the corner of a sheet. I did not reclaim the screen yet because I want to print several more t-shirts. I will work on the rubylith film tomorrow and throw the t-shirts in the dryer for the heat treatment for an hour. I will then wash and…
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Screen The World at Print Austin – Part 3
We’re printing the second colour of Rodney Sayers’ “Codfish Ate the Moon” using the specialized equipment featured in Screen the World — an online training program that teaches anyone, anywhere how to start screenprinting. Learn more about Screen the World at http://www.screentheworld.org. We’ve joined forces with Print Austin and our good friend, Rodney Sayers, to…
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Screen The World at Print Austin – Part 2
Follow along as Andy walks us through a split fountain print using the specialized equipment featured in Screen the World — an online training program that teaches anyone, anywhere how to start screenprinting. We’ve joined forces with Print Austin and our good friend, Rodney Sayers, to bring Rodney’s print to life! Rodney is a Hupacasath…
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Screen The World at Print Austin – Part 1
We’ve joined forces with Print Austin and our good friend, Rodney Sayers, to bring Rodney’s print to life! Rodney is a Hupacasath artist from Ahswinis, Port Alberni, British Columbia, and is a descendant of the Nuu Chah Nulth peoples. Check out more of Rodney’s art at http://www.rodneysayers.com. Watch us build this print using the specialized…
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Shipping Out Screenprinting Equipment
We are so excited to get these screen printing packages shipped out. This week we will be putting the finishing touches on before they are enroute to our first cohort of students! This was a huge shift in our plans, as we transitioned from delivering content in person to delivering the training completely online, where…
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New Training Opportunity
Screenprinting for Entrepreneurs Have you ever thought about starting your own business? Do you have a sketchbook full of designs waiting to come to life? Are you looking to increase the production of your artwork? Do you live in British Columbia, Canada? Keep reading! Wachiay Friendship Centre is excited to announce a new online training…
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Prototyping the Exposing Light Stand
We are working on some designs to manufacture cheap home equipment. With the current state of the world, we cannot host students in person, so instead we will be shipping out equipment so that students can screenprint from home! Yesterday, we got the first prototype of the light stand CNC’d. So what do you think?…
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Featured in Screenprinting Magazine
The latest issue of Screenprinting Magazine just hit the web and Andy wrote a column. It’s about exposure – and much more. In it we introduce some innovative interactive tools we have been working on, and also a video showing how to do a solar exposure. Screen the World! Check it out here.
Can’t Wait…..
Something great is happening today…..no not an election. Screen the World should be appearing in the new issue of Screenprinting Magazine. We’re going to share a couple of new things we’re working on, and discuss the importance of screen making to the process. Stay tuned. I’ll put a link up as soon as it goes…
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Making a Photostencil with the Sun
The sun is an amazing source for full spectrum UV light. Using our homemade exposure unit we exposed a screen with the sun to prove it can create quality stencils. We used a our Step Exposure Gauge as well as the professional Autotype Exposure Calculator and a Stouffer Step Wedge to compare our findings. All…
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Filming of the Exposing Unit
We have been filming some DIY equipment for you. Stay tuned for the full videos.This is a birds-eye-view, time lapse of our filming session for an exposing unit.
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