Screenprinting workshop | MTeach 2017
Conducted an introduction to Screenprinting with fellow Teacher Candidates during MTeach 2017.
Starting with the collaborative practice of Heretic Spectral Nation as our provocation, the class explored the the technique and materiality of Screenprinting in a collaborative manner while also experimenting with colour theory. By using this medium to explore colour theory it aims to create a more tangible understanding than studying the colour wheel. Warm, cool, contrasting and similar colours can be used to demonstrate the effect in real time, and expanded upon in discussion with the students afterwards. Using unstable tissue paper to create stencils proved to add an uncontrollable element, lending a large degree of freedom to the normally rigid and controlled process.
Technically speaking, the most challenging part of screen printing is learning to consistently print large fields of colour. By focusing on this core skill first, students are scaffolded through the more unforgiving aspects of the medium before being shown progressively more advanced techniques that allow greater expression of their ideas later
