Fine Art Screen Printing

'Fine Art Screenprinting' explains the thrilling process of pushing ink through a mesh to produce large areas of vibrant colour. With step-by-step examples, it explains the many and varied ways of creating your designs as prints. It also encourages you to experiment, to achieve exciting and unexpected results. Written for beginners and enthusiasts, it will inspire and stretch artists to try new techniques and ideas. This new book covers the equipment and materials found in the printmaking studio and explains the screenprinting process and how to use positives with photo-sensitive emulsion. There is advice on printing techniques such as making prints from paper stencils and mono-printing and it also gives full guidance on screenprinting kits for use at home. AUTHOR: Maggie Jennings is a practising artist and printmaker. Exuberant, colourful and vibrant, her main body of work is in the form of spontaneous, gestural mono-screenprints. She exhibits widely and teaches all techniques of printmaking, as well as painting and drawing. 290 colour