Christmas gifts, screen printed of course.
8 January, 2009 – 1:25 pmI like to screen print gifts to give to family at Christmas time. This was the third Christmas since I’ve started screen printing and the gifts are a little more advanced than previous years.
My father and I fly hot air balloons and he requested a balloon sweatshirt. This is Matsui Discharge White on a Forest Green Gildan sweatshirt (G800 I think?).
ICE CREAM MAN. I did one for my sister and one for her fiancé. Matsui mixed dark gray ink and also speedball brand glow in the dark ink for the trim. I am really surprised that the speedball glow in the dark ink works so well because they are generally a pretty poor ink company.
Purple hippos on Alternative PE shirt for my sister.
I made a few of these, including one for my sister and one for her fiancé (they got a lot of shirts this year!). I had left over red and yellow discharge so I put both inks on one screen to get this variable color effect.
For my future brother-in-law, dark gray and straight discharge inks done on an Alternative Apparel tonal stripe shirt. Weird. He liked it.
This was straight discharge on a blue Alternative shirt that just didn’t discharge well, so it came out grayish. Still cool but hard to see really. The artwork is a page from a 1960s Beatles coloring book.
This was part of my halloween costume this year but I also made one for future bro-in-law. His is on American Apparel, mine was on distressed Alternative with grinded hems so it looked old. I just did one layer of Matsui 301 white so that the print was faded. My costume was a time traveler supposedly from 2036 so I had an old 2028 shirt on that was worn out.
Orange owl on a yellow Alternative shirt.
French man printed in white and yellow discharge on a purple Alternative shirt.
That’s the majority of the Christmas printing I did. I had a nice holiday and I hope all of my readers did too!
