Today’s work
8 December, 2008 – 10:43 pmWork has been very slow, but today was good. I did three small custom orders. Slow work combined with the fact that I’ve pretty much covered all the topics I can think of is why I don’t blog as frequently of late.
First, I wanted to make a Krav Maga shirt for myself, a design idea I had this weekend. I have a bunch of yellow-pigmented discharge left in the fridge, so I figured I’d use it. This is on a brown Alternative shirt through a 160 mesh (I think):
I do a lot of printing for the Uhuru Solidarity Movement. Here is the latest design:
A new customer wanted some shirts printed for his Yoga studio. He provided Alternative shirts. The first I did were pink/red burnout tee’s. I had never printed on burnout before. The shirts are also 50/50, which complicated the desire of the customer for me to use discharge ink, but I just told him that I was interested in seeing the result so I was willing to experiment. I mixed in Matsui metallic binder to make the discharge sparkle.
Blue Alternative shirts and the customer wanted blue and pink printing, and he picked out some inks from my shelves so I didn’t have to mix anything. The blue didn’t pop well after curing. It looked better before going through the oven. Hopefully the customer will be fine with it being subtle like this. The metallic pink looked good.
I’m going to do an experiment later this week, using the left over discharge ink with metallic binder as an underbase, and the metallic pink on top of it, to make a very sparkly pink on black.
