Showing posts with label silkscreen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label silkscreen. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Wall Art for Florida House


Nana, 1940's

Nana, 1940's


Nana, 1940's

This is a project I've wanted to do for some time. My foxy Nana is my muse!
First, I took store-bought stretched canvas (AC Moore, on sale $5, 16X20) and painted it with the same latex paint that is on the walls of the bedrooms. Then, using my first silkscreen, I inked the background green image. Then, once dry, I took the second silkscreen & did the black ink overlay. I'm pleased with the pop-art quality of this. After all, if I'm going to have to have a hot babe in a bikini on my walls, it's going to be my late, great Polish grandmother!

I had the vellum for creating the silkscreen printed at Seneca Blueprint. I'll post my technique for creating the silkscreens in another post but a quick tutorial is available here from Peach Berserk, where I took the class & fell in love with the fashions many, many years ago.