Last night, I finally got to work on some new onesies. I even experimented with a bib! I don't know how screen printing is with a traditional system, but there really is an art to it with the Yudu. I went through a great deal of paper practicing the new designs. Just a hair too much / too little paint will ruin the whole thing. I think I am getting better at it, though. I found that after you flood the screen (pulling paint over the dry screen before putting the screen down on the object to be painted), there will be a lot of paint in the design. A few pulls over paper will get the paint more even.
I must say that I am not impressed with my first attempt to mix the Yudu brand paint. When I tried to mix purple, it came out a lot more brown than I am used to. Thankfully, it dried into an okay dark, reddish purple color. I think I'm going to try regular screen printing ink when this stuff runs out. Despite the warnings on the Yudu website, I see no reason why these paints wouldn't work. Unless, of course, they do something odd to their screens. I guess I'll find out.
Here are my results:
I plan to start selling these on my
Etsy site. I just put one up. We'll see if anyone is interested!
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