Screen Printing Series Part 1: Prepping Your Design & Screen

In this series, you will learn the basics of screen printing from art design to printing your very own garment!

In part one, you will learn how to create artwork suitable for printing and the process for getting your artwork onto a screen. Discover how to use free resources to create your design, regardless of artistic ability you will be able to make a design you’ll love! Learn how to take your artwork from computer to a physical screen through printing on transparent paper before burning the design into the screen. Lastly, learn what goes into preparing screens to hold artwork for printing.    

IMPORTANT NOTE: This session only includes creating a screen not printing a shirt. Please sign up for session 2 to experience the complete process.

Please send designs to worksops@wsmixxer.org at least 1 day before the class so our instructor can ensure it will work for screen printing. Designs should be a solid color and avoid thin lines. Please see below for reference of appropriate images for screen printing.

Lead by: Neil Underwood (he/him)

Neil Underwood is a long time member of the local maker community having started the first Hackerspace in Winston Salem back in 2011. He is also one of the North American administrators for the RepRap 3d printing research organization, and has a certificate in electrical engineering. These days Neil is a Graduate of Northern Lights Santa Academy and member of the Fraternal order of Real Beard Santas.

This meet up is for makers 13 years old and older. All makers ages 16 years old and under must be accompanied by an adult.  Please email workshops@wsmixxer.org for any questions.