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Re: Cut Paper Designs

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From: Deb Mortl (dmortl_at_TeacherArtExchange)
Date: Mon Dec 03 2001 - 19:52:47 PST


I've had alot of success with screeenprinting with speedball waterbased inks
- less mess and smell. We have a printmaking class and do screenprinting,
etching, woodcuts, monotypes, etc.
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>These lovely cut paper portraits remind me of the kind of screen
>printing we did way back when silk screening (sic) was part of the
>curriculum. Does anyone still do serigraphy in their class rooms? I am
>proposing to my high school that instead of sending out the posters for
>plays to expensive printers, that we screen them the old fashioned
>way--by hand! We need to save some money and I still love the screen
>printing process even though it is laborious. I think kids get a bang
>out of producing stuff like posters themselves. What do you think? Peggy
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