A friend of ours opened a nifty shop recently where one can go and do things like rent sewing machines, learn knitting, buy yarn, or get lessons in screen printing. I took Noah in for a screen printing lesson. I’ve never done it, either, but it turns out it’s much easier than the way I remember my mom printing political signs and banners when I was a kid, where she’d have to exactingly cut away film from a screen. We used a photo emulsion technique that made the process go much faster, and cleaner. I didn’t take pictures of the printing session itself, but here’s a progression from drawing to t-shirt:

Noah’s sketch of a boy, a book, and a grouchy cat:

Noah holding up the emulsified screen with the light shining through so you can see the design:

and, the final print as shown on my t-shirt. The finer lines didn’t come through as well, but the cat turned out great, especially the added stripes.

Anyways, it was all great fun, and we’re already plotting a collaboration to do next time.