Screen Printing Metallic Cherubs

Mettallic Screen Printing

Screen printing metallics is a bit different to other screen printing inks. The difference is that you have to push the ink through the screen using a sqidgy twice and not just once. Remembering to lift the screen of the paper to push the ink back to the beginning again. I wanted to use silver and gold onto my cherub screen to reflect the ancient use of gold when the context is about the after life in essence showing how the image is above the natural world paying homage similar to how gold and silver was first used in churches and  cathedrals. Also used on Egyptian death masks to explain the importance of the after life. I wanted my cherubs to show an opulence and shimmering effect to entice the view to feel moved effecting a reflective harmony.



Gold ink onto tactile natural card cut into swing tickets.

Silver and gold cherubs onto card swing tickets.

The screen showing the liquid based gold Matallic and the masking off of other cherubs to just print one.

This image shows how masking tape is used to show were to place the card so the swing ticket is printed with the cherub in the same place to gain a professional repeat technique.

The ink which is gold is a lot thinner than other inks and therefore it’s a bit more difficult to print. 

I need to practice passing the ink through the screen to get a cohesive print approach , initially I was pressing to hard, sometimes not enough. Practice hopefully will make me more consistent moving forward.