![]() Those designs are great when you’re in a hurry or if you’re not yet confident making your own silkscreen designs. You can buy silkscreens with pre-made patterns on them from many sellers. If you’re new to using silkscreen with polymer clay, you will enjoy reading my All About Silkscreens eBook. There are a lot of possibilities for creating interesting patterns on polymer clay using silkscreens. ![]() You can even layer multiple patterns over the same sheet of polymer clay with paint or powders. You can also use powders such as pastels or mica powders. Screen-printing with silkscreen is normally done with paint, but we have more possibilities when using polymer clay. ![]() 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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