TEXT-TILES/INSPIRATION AFRICA
Days 2 and 3, Spring Term, 1999
THE SCREEN PRINTING WORKSHOPS
By the time Tony came back we had worked a lot on our stories in class. We had to keep on rewriting it until it got clearer and we added words that helped descriptions. We went on the Internet and joined the Text-Tiles classroom on the Website so that we could send some of our stories to Jacqui to put on the Website and to talk to Tony and Xanthe about what we thought of the day they came in.
We then made illustrations for our books and designed the title page. Because they were going to be screen printed we had to cut out our pictures.
 | Day 2 Each group printed their book on a long piece of cloth, we left spaces for the words. When we printed our pictures we used lots of different colours and printed twice on each picture. Sometimes we painted the inks on the pages before printing, we also used some screens with textures. Our Head Teacher, Mr Miller, helped us print with Mrs Desnos the arts co-ordinator. Our pictures looked great when they were screen printed. |  |
Day 3
We had to make sure our stories were laid out properly on the computer. We then photocopied the text A3 size. Next we mono-printed onto our books using acetate and plastic.
  | First we painted on the plastic, we used our fingers and the wrong end of a paintbrush to make patterns then we put them face down on the cloth and rollered over the backs. When we peeled them off they left lots of swirling patterns. |
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We then took the text of our stories and made sure they fitted on the pages. We rubbed vegetable oil on the words and the paper went transparent. We painted PVA glue all over the book and stuck on our story.
You could see the swirly patterns in the background under the words and our banner books were finished.
When they were dry we held them up and our teacher took photos of them. He said they were 'totally awesome'.
