Screenprinting Photos: Halftones and Found Images

With an emphasis on resourcefulness, this fast-paced class encourages photographers, beginning and intermediate screenprinters, designers, zinesters, and internet archelogists to leverage the process of screenprinting photographs. By working from personal photos, drawings, found images or source material mined from the internet, students need not be an advanced photographer to make amazing screenprints.

Working digitally, students will be introduced to the Adobe Photoshop tools frequently used for collaging images, color separation, and stencil printing as well as technical guidelines for image resolution and halftones.

Students will jump into printing two projects. First, a “full-color” CMYK project will review the mechanics of screenprinting and the technical demands of printing fine photographic details. The second project pushes students to test out alternative approaches to printing photos by using monotone or duotone color palettes, spot colors and more.

By the end of the four weeks, students will have honing their understanding of the ‘whys’ and ‘hows’ of screenprinting while learning specialized tools and tricks to produce thoughtful and sharp photo-based images.