Over at the good ship Poster Roast we have asked various poster champions to help us on our merry blogging way..so here is Mr Cameron Stewards first entry, we hope you enjoy it! Such a clever chap…

Howdy.
Firstly, introductions… I am Cameron Steward. Based generally in the North of England, I do designs as twoducksdisco. This being my first post on the Poster Roast blog, I thought I’d better make it a good one, so I’m going to give a quick insight into how I screen-printed a poster for Wolf Parade….

So after designing the poster, I separated the Photoshop file into the three layers / colours.

These layers were then printed onto acetate, ready to be burned to the screens.

When I screen-print I bring along a digital print of what I hope the final poster will look like. I use this for colour reference, trying to get the colours as intended. It’s boring but it’s part of my life…

The screens are firstly coated with Azocol, a thick green liquid substance. After this has dried, the image from the acetate is burned to the screen. As you can see from the pictures on the left, the paint will only pass through the yellow parts and not the green, printing the image from the screens. Magic…

Once all the screens are ready, the actual printing part of the process can commence.

Each layer / colour is printed individually, making screen-printing a long but rewarding task.

Once all the printing is completed (plus cropped, signed, numbered and stamped), the final poster is finished for human consumption.

So they’re now ready to be sold at the show and if you are interested in purchasing one, they will be for sale from the Poster Roast shop soon. Thanks.

I hope that has been an interesting insight into the world of screen-printing. There’ll be more to come in the future but hopefully that’ll keep you at bay for a while…Ciao!