Andy Warhol’s Silkscreen Technique

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Andy Warhol’s Silkscreen Technique

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Follow along as one of our educators demonstrates the photographic silkscreen process used by Andy Warhol in the early 1960s. Originally invented for commercial use, this process allowed Warhol to mass produce imagery in a machine-like fashion. Learn about the photographic silkscreen printing process from beginning to end in this Warhol Lesson's Plan: www.warhol.org...
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@AnthonyMonaghan 4 жыл бұрын

Here's a tip I picked up as a screen printing student. Instead of going to the trouble of getting transparencies printed, simply use a black and white printer to print out your image on normal printer paper. Take a cotton wool ball and dip it in baby oil. Rub it all over the sheet of paper with your printed image on it. The paper around the image becomes translucent leaving the black printed image. Leave the oily paper to dry. Home made transparency. Give it a go.

@tenneshaskyers 2 жыл бұрын

thank you so much!! any recommendations on how to learn how to silk screen? I couldn't find portrait silk screen classes

@fahey5719 6 ай бұрын

You joking? Old as the Pyramids "trick"

@fahey5719 6 ай бұрын

No such a thing. Try *silkscreening* classes Instead.

@Rael64 6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, sadly the transferring of the photo onto the screen via photo emulsion process is not mentioned much less shown. Rather vital part of this process :)

@AnthonyMonaghan 4 жыл бұрын

There's numerous tutorials on KZfaq showing how this is done. Warhol never prepared his own screens, maybe that's why they left it out....ha ha ha.

@fahey5719 6 ай бұрын

There's also lots of good videos out there, instead of this mess.

@hudsonsailor54 6 жыл бұрын

I wish they had shown the screen preparation.

@arundelmercure553 5 жыл бұрын

Andy had it done by commercial lithographers, to prepare the screens. For photo-silkscreens, it's a complicated photochemical process you really can't do yourself with out a lab, darkroom, chemicals etc.

@mzny4314 5 жыл бұрын

@@arundelmercure553 liar

@pennykent5687 5 жыл бұрын

@@arundelmercure553 you can buy screens, chemical treat (coat) them, light burn them with your art on screen, let dry, then print them, as she has done here. Basically.

@JimBimBum 4 жыл бұрын

@@pennykent5687 you're correct, you can easily find tutorials on how to do just that on KZfaq. It's relatively easy and not at all complicated.

@JimBimBum 4 жыл бұрын

@@arundelmercure553 also you don't need a dark room. The sun works just fine.

@aaaaaaaaaaaa_99 5 жыл бұрын

If you don’t wanna do all the difficult stuff, you can just put an image under a silkscreen and trace it straight into the screen with felt pens. Then use acrylic printing medium to print it onto the paper. It’s a lot easier and it’s much less hassle. The pen ink will wash straight out of the screen if you run it under water. It needs to be washable felt pens otherwise they will stain.

@AnthonyMonaghan 4 жыл бұрын

There you go. An ingenious, cheap and simple solution. Thank you.

@thewarholmuseum 4 жыл бұрын

Learn about the photographic silkscreen printing process from beginning to end in this Warhol Lesson's Plan: www.warhol.org/lessons/silkscreen-printing/

@godfreydaniel6278 4 жыл бұрын

To all the uptight would-be printmakers bitching below - the fact that screen prep isn't shown on this video is fully irrelevant - there are literally dozens of videos on youtube to show how it's done - from professionally to in your bathroom. So lighten up - find your level of need and watch the ones that best approximate your situation - and do that. The truly valuable nuggets here have to do with how Warhol got his varied-looking prints with the addition of the twice-traced stencil and underpainting - THAT isn't made as clear in almost ANY videos here. Many people (including me) thought that multiple passes of multiple screens are necessary - you can do that for specific effects - but you can also do without them. So give it a rest - this is a VERY good instructional tool...

@nicoledezelon8601 6 жыл бұрын

If you are interested in the complete photographic silkscreen printing process, The Warhol Museum provides a unit plan complete with powerpoints, images etc. You can find it here: www.warhol.org/lessons/silkscreen-printing/

@ikbenmezelf3310 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Andy Warhol Museum. Thanksalot for the explanation! My question is (really read almost every book, browsed the complete internet - but can't find it). How did he do this with the Marilyns on a grid? 1. he did the background colouring by hand? 2. how did he do the outlining of all the Marilyns next (and under) to each other? 3. at that time there was no photoshop. so how did he reach the 'bitmap' effect or did he only use halftone?

@seus2731 6 жыл бұрын

best tutorial on th Internet for AW technique, thank you

@fahey5719 6 ай бұрын

What can be worse than this?

@allenmueller 6 жыл бұрын

Wow this is inspiring. Thank you so much for this! For all the folks complaining about what is not explained here: try KZfaq - there's lots of videos about those things to be found. This is an overview with a focus on Andy Warhol's technique - not a walkthrough of how to become Andy Warhol in 7 easy steps.

@user-ou8fh4ng9t 6 жыл бұрын

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@devenidarock Жыл бұрын

Gerald Maranga knows it all. He could tell.

@briedaniels 6 жыл бұрын

Is it me, or is there something missing in this demonstration...What ISN'T shown is what stops the black ink from covering the whole painting? Anyone help please?

@mmyllymaki3817 6 жыл бұрын

photoemulsion on the screen

@briedaniels 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I am an absolute beginner, and assumed this video would give me a step-by-step guide. Sadly it doesn't.

@christinearnold-green8540 6 жыл бұрын

? Perfectly valid! The process of photo- emulsioning the screen etc isn't touched upon.

@user-ou8fh4ng9t 6 жыл бұрын

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@medievallassie 5 жыл бұрын

In addition to the photo emulsion they have also added tape to all of the edges usually both inside and out. That blocks the ink from seeping out of the sides where the photo emulsion can't reach. I agree that this is quite ridiculous to not show the screen prep. I did, however assume that Warhol did separations of color for the silkscreening but this is really cool to paint the colors on first and then print only one screen!! I love that idea! Sure cuts down on the margin of error!

@aaronramos8393 6 жыл бұрын

yeah it didnt show how they created the screen. a diy would be nice.

@simplydoz 5 жыл бұрын

Skipping the screen making process was a mistake and it was a wast of time. I found out far to late that it wouldnt be shown.

@fahey5719 6 ай бұрын

arundelmercure553 does not show it because he has no clue. He should not be making videos about it.

@GoodEveningWeAreBLAST 6 жыл бұрын

What the heck is in the screen? Some background information would be nice. I’m trying to do this for an art project but since I don’t know anything at all I’m really lost

@luisr8435 6 жыл бұрын

didnt he use multiple screens? instead of using paint brushes like in 3:00

@DanSolSko 5 жыл бұрын

I think i read somewhere that he usually used 3-4 screens.

@SaintMartins 4 жыл бұрын

Yes he may have, but it was faster to paint the 1st layer rather than preparing 2 or 3 more screen or washing & re-washing the same screen. Short cuts are common in any workplace.

@miltonlopez3482 6 жыл бұрын

This is a great idea reduce the cost of printing if you have to make the color separation and each individual film and screens really blacks is the one the make the outline the final touch Great video

@user-ou8fh4ng9t 6 жыл бұрын

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@JOERYAN273 4 жыл бұрын

Well that sucked. I was hoping to understand the screen process

@abbasakhan 3 жыл бұрын

and the instructions on their website could be better! Oh well...

@drewrawson7525 5 жыл бұрын

awesome

@robotjeans 6 жыл бұрын

Very interesting, thank you for sharing

@fahey5719 6 ай бұрын

NO SOUND. WTF?

@fromthepeanutgallery1084 3 жыл бұрын

Every time I watch one of there videos I cringe at all the paint and toxins so casually washed down the sink which ends up in the water table and the ocean. There are hundreds of thousands of people and businesses doing this every single day all over the world and this is only one industry.

@mariaradeva407 3 жыл бұрын

Why is it mute?

@thewarholmuseum 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Maria. This video is silent.

@garywilloughby6893 4 жыл бұрын

Is there sound ??

@thewarholmuseum 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Gary. This video does not have sound.

@fahey5719 6 ай бұрын

What did you expect on such a cheesy video?

@blastsucarta1068 11 ай бұрын

Liquitex acrylic and black oil based enamel are the real mediums he would have used and only for the canvas paintings. Silkscreen Editions on paper were printed by actual skilled printers in a print shop using multiple screens.

@marktwain4095 5 жыл бұрын

is the film positives a bitmap or what?

@MsAlex0201 5 жыл бұрын

I used bitmap to make one recently and it works quite well :)

@PleasestopcallingmeDoctorImath 6 жыл бұрын

The screen isnt parallel with the table...

@arundelmercure553 5 жыл бұрын

For people asking in the comments: to do a photo-silkscreen, meaning get the photo-image on the screen to begin with: Well, Andy picked a photo and had commercial lithographers do it. He had to, because that's a WHOLE other photochemical process that requires a lab, chemicals, screen construction.. you really can't do it yourself. He definitely did print them as seen here, (with assistants' help) but you really can't get a photo-image on a silkscreen yourself. Unless you have a lab, chemicals, a darkroom..it's a different part of the process than just the printing part seen here. For NON photo silkscreens, like illustration, that's a different thing as well..too complicated to get into here!

@Vnasty91 5 жыл бұрын

Arundel Mercure couldn’t you just make a halftime of the image and burn that onto the screen? I understand what you mean about Andy’s technique, but it’s definitely possible to burn an image onto a screen using halftones

@arundelmercure553 5 жыл бұрын

@@Vnasty91 - Hi Victor. I really didn't mean to get ahead of my skis with my expertise! Which is limited to art school, we used it for non-photo, carved out of wax sheets. and affixed.. it's a very different thing to a photo silkscreen. I have no idea how an ordinary person would be able to make a half-tone image on their own, on the screen. When you say it's definitely possible to burn an image that way, well sure. If they are expert at photographically printing an image on a screen. It's just this very interesting video about PRINTING an individual silkscreen on paper or canvas, it seems like a "how-to", and people want to know how- they are asking in the comments- and, it takes expertise in photography, equipment, chemicals to make the actual silk SCREEN that the pigment is pushed through. It's best left to the professionals, lithographers. I am wondering "couldn’t you just make a halftime of the image and burn that onto the screen? "- you make it sound easy! :) Well sure. But do most people know how to do that? How? The video seemed for amateurs (nothing wrong with that!) who want to try the printing technique, wondering how to get that photo- image on the screen in the first place. The answer is, like it was with Andy, leave it to the pros, pay them to do it for you, because it's a highly technical, chemical, smelly hassle. Plus learning to construct screens and the nylons the pigment passes through.. it's beyond most people, very hard, and that's all BEFORE printing, which looks fun and easy. Actually difficult to get right, and smelly too, with a lot of clean-up with acetone, etc. But can be fun! ANYWAY, hope this helps. I was just trying to answer questions, and my answer is, find a pro to make the screens, then have fun printing and experimenting. Best to you have a great weekend. :)

@mzny4314 5 жыл бұрын

@@arundelmercure553In other words, this is a misleading video because you don't know how to prep a screen

@kimfritz7882 4 жыл бұрын

What? Speedball makes "intermediate" kits to make screens from photos easily using photo emulsion. I use mine both at home and in the art classroom...

@fahey5719 6 ай бұрын

@arundelmercure553 nonsense. You can put any image on screen in minutes over the kitchen table. No need for complicated Labs" or anything.

@fahey5719 6 ай бұрын

TERRIBLE video, most incomplete.