The art of screen printing
When it comes to screen printing, I've noticed a rather interesting trend. There are many artists who produce hyper-realistic images through screen printing using a large number of colors (implying a large number of sites) but there are also more pragmatic people who prefer a maximum of 4 colors, sometimes even fewer.
I liked this idea of making images as realistic as possible, after observing how Rafael Roan produces images with 7-9 different colors, going to the extreme with the screen resolution and number of lines (LPI)
I ordered some new emulsion and got to work. I found an image online, separated it into 7 different colors using Photoshop, and designed it to be used on a black t-shirt. I'll use the black of the t-shirt as the 8th color.
The result is shown below.
personalized t-shirt screen printing 2 colors (white and yellow)
the same t-shirt with a 3rd color added (+red)
the same t-shirt with 5 colors (two different tones of brown were added for skin color)
The result is spectacular, the more colors, the higher the image fidelity. Of course, this is considered artistic screen printing and is not something feasible for mass production in a small workshop. To have 7 screens you probably need a monster automatic screen printing carousel with at least 8 colors and a whole team to produce something like that.
