silkscreening question
Sep. 1st, 2007 02:49 amHello all,
I've googled this and the only links I actually got were from this community so I figured I'd ask here. (hehe i know this is craftgrrl so hopefully none of you will be offended that boy is posting ;) )
My bandmates and I recently invested in a 1 color silkscreen press..
I bought a kit at micheals that included the screen and everything...
so my fist attempt really didn't work out at all.
The emulsion didn't wash off completely.. I wasn't using a strong enough light.. so I left it for longer then suggested..
This time i'm going to try using 2 transparencies and I'm buying a proper photo flood blub (or at least a 150w light) and leave it for the said amount of time (i think it's 45 mins)
okay here's where i'm getting confused..
I bought some more photo emulsion from a local art store (she had to order it in)
it's a 26 oz diazo photo emulsion.. how much sensitizer should I use with it?
the lady at the art store wasn't 100% sure.. she had the kit and it has a 1oz bottle for a 4oz emulsion bottle...
she sold me two 2oz bottles of sensitizer.. does that sound about right? part of me is thinking if they only make the 2 sizes of emultion you'd think one bigger sensitizer would be enough... but math tells me otherwise.. anyone have any idea?
any help is much appriciated
I've googled this and the only links I actually got were from this community so I figured I'd ask here. (hehe i know this is craftgrrl so hopefully none of you will be offended that boy is posting ;) )
My bandmates and I recently invested in a 1 color silkscreen press..
I bought a kit at micheals that included the screen and everything...
so my fist attempt really didn't work out at all.
The emulsion didn't wash off completely.. I wasn't using a strong enough light.. so I left it for longer then suggested..
This time i'm going to try using 2 transparencies and I'm buying a proper photo flood blub (or at least a 150w light) and leave it for the said amount of time (i think it's 45 mins)
okay here's where i'm getting confused..
I bought some more photo emulsion from a local art store (she had to order it in)
it's a 26 oz diazo photo emulsion.. how much sensitizer should I use with it?
the lady at the art store wasn't 100% sure.. she had the kit and it has a 1oz bottle for a 4oz emulsion bottle...
she sold me two 2oz bottles of sensitizer.. does that sound about right? part of me is thinking if they only make the 2 sizes of emultion you'd think one bigger sensitizer would be enough... but math tells me otherwise.. anyone have any idea?
any help is much appriciated