Deer Screen Printing

I recently found an image of a pencil sketch deer head that I really liked and had my local screen printer make a silkscreen for me.    Here's what the finished image looks like printed onto a reusable canvas shopping bag.   Isn't it cute?

The process of doing custom screen printing is surprisingly easy and not expensive at all.  The best thing to do is to find an image you love, have a screen made, and then print lots and lots of shirts, bags, and fabrics with the image.   The real cost is all the set-up, not the actual printing, so it pays to be prepared and show up with an armload of things to print on.

Here's the screen ready to go.    The actual cutting of the image of the screen is done digitally.  Unfortunately, I missed the part when she made the screen, but I just love the contrast of the green film and yellow cut out areas.   I was tempted to buy the frame and screen together and just hang it up as art.

Here's the screen used with white ink.    After a quick pass, the ink collects at the end of the screen and can be used over and over until you run out of ink.

And here's the same deer head image on a grey t-shirt.   I love the clean white image on the heather-y grey shirt.   I bought a three pack of shirts and made multiples.   

And here's the shirt drying.   It dries very quickly in just minutes.   When it's dried, it then gets pressed with a very high-heat iron to permanently set the ink into the shirt.   And voila!

After we made this white t-shirt set, I then had 15 tote bags made with black ink and a tiny screen that read just "DANNY SEO."   Those tote bags are being brought to Las Vegas this month as gift bags (filled with my books, custom soy candles and other goodies) when we launch my new line of eco mattresses with Simmons.   But more on that later!

Comments

[shelby k]

very cool. the deer is really sweet. i've been dying to try screen printing, but i've been sticking to painting on things with acrylic paint. now that i know it's easy and affordable to do, i'm definitely going to try this!

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[T-shirt Screen Printer]

This is a great tutorial on what Screen Printers do every day. I love reading random blogs about screen printing. Cool deer image too.

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dude. you swiped that drawing. SOMEONE drew that, but your bag displays only YOUR name. not cool.

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