Enamelling With Small Screens Workshop with Pat Johnson
Using a small silk screen to apply enamel to either a copper or a previously enamelled surface is a wonderful way to create an image which would be other wise laborious or impossible to draw.
In this workshop, we will be making screens from your own images, prepared before you come to the conference. The images can be made from clear photographs, with lots of contrast, or a drawing, or words, etc. You can make screens that will produce patterns or pictures of people or pets, or textures – almost anything.
These images, however, need to be brought to the workshop as black and white photocopies. The photocopies MUST be made on a newsagent’s machine. The printers that ‘photocopy’ images from a computer do not have the right kind of ink need to create the screens. Do produce at least several photocopied images, as some will be more successful than others.
If you want to contact me ahead of the conference (please do), I will send you more detailed instructions on how to prepare the images and what kind of pictures might be the most successful. In addition I will be bringing previously prepared screens for you to use, because you will find that never have enough, once you start creating enamelled pictures with this technique.
Each screen will cost £2.50. The size of the screen is a bit less than A4, so you can often fit on more than one image. Frames to hold the screen will be supplied.
Although copper and enamels will be available for you to buy from and use at the workshop, it would be better if you could bring some pre-enamelled copper pieces and have your images prepared to fit their size. Often the Riso screen images look best when applied to a background that has a lot of colour/lines/another image/etc already fired on. Somehow the interaction between a contrasting background and the screen image makes a more interesting statement than if the Riso image is fired on top of a plain background. I will be bringing along lots of samples to show what spontaneous combinations look like as opposed to completely planned pieces.
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