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Zeum: San Francisco’s Children’s Museum today announced the opening of Proof Positive, its newest “Spotlight on Youth Art” installation, featuring a collection of thought-provoking artwork by high-school students from the East Oakland School of the Arts .
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Anglia Book Store 38 Naberezhnaya reki Fontanki. M. Gostiny Dvor, Mayakovskaya. Tel. 279-8284. Daily, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Album Gallery-Studio 36 5th Line of Vasilyevsky Island. Tel. 323-5715. Daily 12 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Tipoffs net RCMP knock-offs (The Sault Star)
A Market Mall merchant allegedly sold counterfeit clothing for almost the same price as legitimately made fashions. RCMP seized more than 500 T-shirts, hoodies, baseball caps, coats and hockey jerseys from Rick’s Outlet on Friday….
Exeter news briefs (Exeter News-Letter)
Silkscreen artist, Catherine Green, will exhibit her prints throughout the months of July and August at the Exeter Public Library. Depicting images of our natural world, her most recent work includes stunning birch tree prints. The library is located at…
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36 5th Line of Vasilyevsky Island. Tel. 323-5715. Daily 12 a.m. to 7 p.m. Anna Nova 28 Zhukovskogo Ul., tel. 275-9762. Tuesday Saturday 12 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Silkscreen paint
Silkscreen printing, also known as silk screening or serigraphy, is a printing technique that was first devised in the early twentieth century. However, throughout the years, silkscreen printing has been modified to be able to print images on a variety of items, such as watch and clock faces, manufacturer labels, clothing, and even computer circuit boards. The basic technique of silkscreen printing has not changed however since its inception. First, a screen is made by stretching a porous mesh, originally made out of silk, over a rectangular frame of aluminum or wood. Portions of this screen are then blocked off by a non porous material, forming a negative of the image to be printed on the substrate. Finally, the blocked off screen is held over a substrate, often paper or fabric, and silkscreen paint or ink is squeegeed over the screen onto the substrate, creating the reverse of the image blocked off on the screen itself. The silkscreen paint used is often a very permanent ink. It is possible to buy silkscreen paint in a variety of colors. In fact, many professional silkscreen printers use a variety of silkscreen paint to create multi layered silkscreen images that can be sold at high prices because of their intricacy. If you are interested in creating your own silk screened items, you can purchase all of the materials necessary online or at most regular craft stores. Many online Web sites and craft stores now carry pre made screens, so that you only have to block off the image on the screen and squeegee the silkscreen paint over your substrate. Most craft stores and online sites will carry numerous colors of silkscreen paint and also numerous types. Make sure you choose the silkscreen paint that is meant for your type of substrate. That is, do not use silkscreen paint meant for fabric on ceramic substrates or vice versa. Some hobby silkscreen sites will have recipes on how to make your own silkscreen paint. However, this is considered a technique for an advanced silkscreen printer and thus should only be attempted if you have mastered the other parts of the printing technique first. For this reason, many professional silkscreen printers suggest that novice silkscreen printers use store bought silkscreen paint until they have fully mastered the silkscreen printing technique. Even so, some professional silkscreen printers never make their own silkscreen paint, claiming that store bought paint works just as well and the time they save is worth the extra expense. The choice is up to you; just make sure to follow all silkscreen printing instructions when you are first starting out.
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