How do you know ink is cured on a shirt? Wash it as you normally would launder a shirt and see if the ink comes off. Get a washer and dryer at work or bring shirts home, that is the only way to be sure if the ink is cured. You can use all kinds…
Este post de hace de cinco años todavía sigue vigente. El otro día alguien hablaba del “teal “, un color que puede ser desde azul brillante a un color mas azul verdoso. Esto es lo que pasa con el color, puede ser una trampa si no tienes cuidado.Hoy recordamos las maravillas del Sistema de Comparación…
Artist Lawrence Cumbo was asked by Dr. John to take a photo in 1998 in New Orleans that would be a tip of the hat to the famous Art Kane photo “A Great Day in Harlem.” Sixty-three Louisiana artists were assembled on Louis Armstrong’s birthday in Armstrong Park. The photo included New Orleans great Allen Toussaint…
This post from a five years ago still rings true. The other day somebody was talking about “teal” as a color which can be everything from a bright blue to a very green blue. Here’s about colors that can be a trap if you are not careful. We are reminded today of the wonders of the…
Down on Frenchman Street in New Orleans on a Tuesday night which was turning into Wednesday morning I met Rosin, selling her “Kitchen Ink” wares at a table. She literally screens on the floor in her kitchen, air dries her ink, and has a total DIY operation going. A few photos of her designs and…
I’m still in New Orleans and I love meeting other screen printers when I’m traveling. Today I hung out with Brandon from Inferno Screen Printing. His shop does a lot of cool work and a lot of discharge prints for the music industry. Nothing more fun than talking shop with somebody else who likes screen…
The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is one of the best music and food events in the world. Also tshirt heaven. We start with memorial shirts and then will share some from the literally hundreds of thousands of shirts to be seen here.
Tom posted that he has literally hundreds of carts in his shop and he means hundreds. I posted that I waited way too long to make more carts. Here is another cart story. My friend’s shop is in a poor part of town and there are lots of industrious types, so to speak, as in…
Like it or not, the ability to print with silicone ink is going to have to find its place in your tool box. The pros are: it’s super stretchy zero dye migration on polyesters it’s cheaper than an insurance policy when you need to print on a $150 stretchy polyester jacket. The cons are: short pot…
