Camilla Morrison
  • About
  • Costume Design
    • The Music Man
    • The Tempest
    • Spelling Bee
    • Steel Magnolias
    • Seussical
    • The Importance of Being Earnest
    • The Moors
    • The Cake
    • Vieux Carre
    • A Midsummer Night's Dream - North Dakota Shakespeare Festival
    • Pump Boys and Dinettes
    • Silent Sky
    • Much Ado About Nothing
    • Noises Off
    • Hangar Theatre Design Fellowship
    • Ten Mile Lake
    • Passage to you
    • A Midsummer Night's Dream
    • Sweeney Todd
    • Antigone
    • Moon in My Memory
    • The Lovely Step Sister
    • Stick Fly
    • Grace
    • Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play
    • Speech and Debate
    • The Wizard of Oz
    • The Wolves
    • The Dance Class
    • Physical Theatre Showcase 2015
    • Carrie the Musical
    • Swine Palace Summerfest 2013
    • The Happy Elf
    • Psycho Beach Party
  • Costume Technology
    • Draper
    • Airbrush
    • Batik
    • Casting and Latex Prosthetics
    • Dancewear
    • Distressing
    • Dyeing Techniques
    • Fabric Painting
    • Marbling
    • Millinery
    • Pattern Drafting
    • Screen Printing
    • Silk Painting
    • Stamping and Using a Stencil
    • Tambour Beading
    • Transferring an Image to Fabric
    • Using Silicon with Fabric
    • Ventilation
    • Wig Styling
  • My Studio
    • NDCA Individual Artist Fellowship: Of the Earth
    • Nightmares are Dreams, Too

Screen Printing

Screen printing is the process of "burning" an image to a silk screen, which can then be transferred to fabric or paper.  We created our own silk screens with scrap wood and purchased silk screening to stretch on the wooden frame.  The silk is stretched evenly to create a flat, taught surface on which we can burn our images.  The screen is sealed to the wood with duct tape to enhance it's durability as it will be washed many times.  In order for the screen printing process to work properly, we need a darkroom, or an area that will be safe for light-sensitive materials.  In this darkroom, we coat the screen with photo emulsion using a squeegee.  Now we can let the photo emulsion dry and prepare the images.  The images need to be copied to transparencies so that only your image will be transferred to the screen.  When the photo emulsion is dry, we can set up the images on the screen in the darkroom because the photo emulsion is always light sensitive.  A sheet of glass is then placed over the images to hold them tight to the screen and we turn on our light in our exposure unit, which shines an even light on the entire screen.  This causes your images to "burn" into the screen. After the images are burned, the photo emulsion is washed off in a sink or area that is accessible to water and your images will appear.  The photo emulsion is still light sensitive, so if you can't rinse the screen in the dark room, it must be done quickly while exposed to any light.  Once the emulsion is rinsed out and the screen is dry, you can print on fabric or paper using the same kind of squeegee technique that we used to get the photo emulsion onto the screen.
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  • About
  • Costume Design
    • The Music Man
    • The Tempest
    • Spelling Bee
    • Steel Magnolias
    • Seussical
    • The Importance of Being Earnest
    • The Moors
    • The Cake
    • Vieux Carre
    • A Midsummer Night's Dream - North Dakota Shakespeare Festival
    • Pump Boys and Dinettes
    • Silent Sky
    • Much Ado About Nothing
    • Noises Off
    • Hangar Theatre Design Fellowship
    • Ten Mile Lake
    • Passage to you
    • A Midsummer Night's Dream
    • Sweeney Todd
    • Antigone
    • Moon in My Memory
    • The Lovely Step Sister
    • Stick Fly
    • Grace
    • Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play
    • Speech and Debate
    • The Wizard of Oz
    • The Wolves
    • The Dance Class
    • Physical Theatre Showcase 2015
    • Carrie the Musical
    • Swine Palace Summerfest 2013
    • The Happy Elf
    • Psycho Beach Party
  • Costume Technology
    • Draper
    • Airbrush
    • Batik
    • Casting and Latex Prosthetics
    • Dancewear
    • Distressing
    • Dyeing Techniques
    • Fabric Painting
    • Marbling
    • Millinery
    • Pattern Drafting
    • Screen Printing
    • Silk Painting
    • Stamping and Using a Stencil
    • Tambour Beading
    • Transferring an Image to Fabric
    • Using Silicon with Fabric
    • Ventilation
    • Wig Styling
  • My Studio
    • NDCA Individual Artist Fellowship: Of the Earth
    • Nightmares are Dreams, Too