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You don’t need to use a printed image to expose the silkscreen film. This process could also be used to print onto a polymer clay sheet. The silkscreen was used to screen-print a white image onto black paper (R). That was used to expose photosensitive silkscreen film (orange) to make a silkscreen (C). Soak the screen emulsion film to soften the material unexposed areas (this matches your design).Ī bumblebee image was printed onto transparency film with a home printer (L).Your design will block the light from reaching the film. Lay your printed transparency onto photosensitive screen emulsion film.

Print your image onto a printable transparency sheet.

It’s very simple to make your own silkscreens. But technology is much simpler nowadays and you can take advantage of your home printer and photosensitive screen emulsion film. I think graphic artists can still use that sort of thing. When I took fine art classes many years ago, we used specialized stencil materials that had to be cut with an X-acto knife. So the solution is to make your own silkscreens using your own designs.

But many artists aren’t comfortable with using another artist’s designs on their work. Those designs are great when you’re in a hurry or if you’re not yet confident making your own silkscreen designs.

You can buy silkscreens with pre-made patterns on them from many sellers. If you’re new to using silkscreen with polymer clay, you will enjoy reading my All About Silkscreens eBook. There are a lot of possibilities for creating interesting patterns on polymer clay using silkscreens. You can even layer multiple patterns over the same sheet of polymer clay with paint or powders. You can also use powders such as pastels or mica powders. Screen-printing with silkscreen is normally done with paint, but we have more possibilities when using polymer clay. These ornaments were made using the Opulent Tapestry Tutorial with silkscreens from Moiko Silkscreens. These sheets are then made into earrings or other little opulent ornaments. Silkscreens can be used many times to print the same image over and over, and even on different materials.Īs you can see in these earrings, the screen-printed image, in silver or white, is layered over a colored sheet of polymer clay. Screen-printed images on polymer clay can be a striking focal image or they can be an overall background that supports additional layers of clay or paint.

But polymer clay artists use silkscreens to print a design onto a sheet of clay without having to paint it on. Silkscreens are often used to print the same image repeatedly, such as printing a logo onto t-shirts for a baseball team or youth group. After printing, the sheet of unbaked polymer clay can then be cut, shaped, and molded to make art pieces such as jewelry, home decor, or even book covers. Polymer clay is a vinyl putty that, when rolled into a sheet, makes an excellent surface onto which you can screen-print. While you can use silkscreens to print on many materials, we’ll focus here on how these silkscreens are useful for screen-printing on a sheet of unbaked polymer clay. Silkscreens can be purchased with a design already on them, or you can make your own silkscreens. If you’ve ever had a t-shirt with a design printed on the front, that was likely made using a silkscreen. You push paint through a silkscreen to print an image onto a material, such as fabric, plastic, polymer clay, or paper. Silkscreens are stencils created on a fine fabric mesh.