Fine Art Screenprinting

Fine Art Screenprinting by Maggie Jennings

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 book introduces the equipment and materials found in the printmaking studio, explains the screenprinting process and how to use positives with photo-sensitive emulsion, advises on printing techniques such as making prints from paper stencils and mono-printing, and gives full guidance on screenprinting kits for use at home. 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.