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.
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