Long time!

Well sorry to ryonet for the delay but with computers going out and not another way to access my blog I was stranded! Well I am back though and have been doing business still. Things aren’t looking down with the seasons and holidays coming up it only means opportunity!

So I have made some more shirts for a lawn service that’s a town away and they ordered 15 shirts not too many but it was only one color to not too bad. They came out great and loved the art work that I was able to create for them. Good people too.

Now with the blog back on and the season in I am going to ordering some more supplies in a few days and get on some new prints! I have already looked into the 4 color process job that I am excited to do and will show that a little later! I don't want to ginks anything right now.

Good new I might be combining my efforts with another local shop here in my little town but we'll see how that will turn out still waiting to hear back from them. But it is looking promising and would be a great opportunity! Can’t wait for that. More pictures are soon to come but it’s almost 2 am and do not have them here now.

As for ordering I am getting some new squeegees from Ryonet and also some goop scoops and screen wash, because I go through that stuff fast so I getting the gallon this time no quartz haha. I going to take a day or two and jus make shirts for myself because I realized that the ones I have now are getting worn out and I like wearing the shirts I make!

Here is a shirt i made for a Rain gutter busniess. They only wanted them on the chest of the shirts and they came out nice. I used the Ryonet White ink that works really well and a 110 mesh screen that was coated twice. Once on the inside and twice on the shirt side of the screen, to make the stencil thicker.

Rally up!

So far so slow! ha well i just got an order fora few shirts for my friend who is protesting with some other people for pro-life. I don't have any problems doing the shirts because I am not stating my opinion on the matter to her or in my blog. It is a very controversial topic but its business! and that's what i need.

The shirt is pretty simple just black print on a white shirt that says pro life in a nice font and a quote from the bible too.

I was going to play a joke and make one with pro choice on the front and give it to her first but they need them by sunday and i dont have much time with other things i have too! Good joke tho haha

So i going to make them for her but i was thinking of making a lot more and go out there to sell them! might work for some business but I'm not sure yet...

Also on a better note me and my friend came up with a good shirt idea and i am going to make it and it goes good along that it is Halloween. i have not made and finished the design but for now i just going to say that it deals with Frankenstein and that i will try to also sell it on here or online!

Pics of both well be up soon!

Slow but steady!

So right now it is slow but i have a new order of shirts that i will be making for my friend who is trying to start his brand! this time he wants more shirts and i hope that it'll go good and no problems! ha i will be using a triangle white ink not the usual ryonet white that i find to be the best to use, creamy and the most opaque, but by the customers request! Weird but its ok.

The images for these shirts will be up soon here!

Also i need to make more business and i think getting into the season and into October that that will happen! i have a good feeling! Homecoming is coming up so i want to advertise this week to get it out there!!

If anyone can help me out with how to get my name out more it would be great! It's kinda hard right now living in this little town. Soon i will have more business though and good profits.
I have also recently wanted to try a half tone image with printing white but i am kind of skeptical about it. I have heard using a 203 mesh screen and to mix the white ink really well that i can do it but we will see! More of those pictures will be up also!!

New Prints for a New Brand!!

Hey wel i just got done with an order from friend who is looking to start his own brand. Well i am helping him out and gave him a good price so that he can sell his shirts but we both make some profit! this design was pretty simple jus the brand name "The Lift Five" he is coming up with the ideas and going to let me know to i should have some good business through him!

this is the shirts

Here it is still on the press right before curing!

This is the Grey one the reverse of the color shirts

This is the all white black one!

So for this time i got great use out of my Silver Press from Ryonet. This press moves nice and has great registration. I also used ryonets white ink and jet black ink and they came out great! a suggestion, probably for any white ink, mix it really good so that it is creamy and it will be easier to work with. Also i was using a 110 mesh and i had coated the emulsion on 2 times so the stencil was thick.

I also gave the push method with the squeege a shot because i heard the white comes out better and i found personally it was harder and came out ugly and stucko like. So i think for now i will stick to the pull method for the squeege and get my results! the high angle and light but smooth pull gave me nice results. My friend liked them and sold them already!

There was only 6 shirts to make for now but there will be more to come!

Bummyy!!

Well this week ends up not going as well as planned! Poop! *(keeping this family friendly). But really this was not a good i was planning on making the class senior shirts for one the high schools here in my town. The knew what they wanted and everything and i would have been around 100 shirts by mid October. That would be my singl bigest order i ever had and the profit would be great and helop me out! BUT they needed a Business licence number!! I dont have one and a really want one now because that is the second order that i had to turn down because of that!

This order was going to help me but a few little supplies like goop scoops and screen tape and a some screen wash but the main thing that i was goinng to get was a FLASH DRYER that i really need to do bigger orders and this heat gun is getting annoying that it take so long! Having a flash dryer would make it so much better and less chance of messing up the curing process!

Also i need to get my garment licence but it makes no sense on how to get it! If anyone knows how to get in California let me know ASAP maybe i can still get this order!

September video!

hey new video for the September enerty!! will have another one for the blog soon!!

Half Tone Success!

So i just finished my very first halftone image and at first i did not think that my printer would be capable of doing it but it did! The images i have done are one is of Jim Morrison which is in the picture and the other is of Betty Page, which i have not yet done but hopefully will get to do today!


So when making a Half tone image you do not want to use a screen such as 110 or 156 mesh screen probably not even 230. The screen that i used was a 305 mesh screen and it worked very well. also when exposing it only takes about 12 min with a 500 watt work light so just a min or 30 seconds less then normal because there is less emulsion on the screen in comparision to what a 110 or a 21o would have.

As you can see in the picture all the lil dots that make the image work together to make a shadow look and to make it seem almost like a picture. This print was for a friend of mine who wanted it on her sweater.

and after having it on her sweater she said
"He's yummmmy" Kalya

What a creep