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Prints
and Paintings.
A gallery for my paintings and silkscreen prints.
Silkscreen printmaking is a process where a series of pictures
are made by hand printing individual colours to sheets of
paper through a stencil, adding layers of colours until the
image is resolved.
For me it's like a slow-motion style of painting, lacking
the 'autographic' nature of painting directly to canvas, but
it allows me to concentrate on contours and linear composition.
Another thing I like about the silkscreen process is how it's
well suited to experimentation with a limited pallette of
colours.
It's still called silkscreen, although the screens are now
all polyester, but I still use silk for tusche-glue, blockout
and some other hand-work techniques. I cut paper with a scalpel
to make most of my stencils, altering them with glue blockout,
painted onto the screens between colour printing sessions.
Photostencils are made by photographing drawings etc, onto
high-contrast film and then collaging the lith film scraps
on sheets of acetate with hand painted films also, then exposing
them to a screen coated with a light-sensitive glue.
Inks
are the same pigments as in oil paints, but in a paste-like
medium instead of linseed oil.
Quentin Roper.
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