How Do You Make Hand-Drawn Positives For Multiple-Color Silk Screen Printing?
You can think in all the colors of the rainbow – and you can print in all the colors of the rainbow. But you still have to draw in black and white! In other words, it’s the ink you use to print the image that determines the color – the art is still created in black and white. Here’s how to layer transparencies to achieve multicolor art. Consider how any of the colors could be combined in the printing to create a third color if you want to make a more complex version of the image described above. Take the blue printer, for instance, and, in addition to the sky, draw in the grass – but instead of filling in this area as a solid on the transparency, create a textured or “shaded” area that will allow only a little blue ink to be deposited on the paper when printing. Take the “yellow” transparency, and also draw into the corresponding “grass” area, allowing a certain amount of yellow ink to be deposited along with the blue. Allow more yellow for a greener mixture; the more blue, the darker
