Silkscreen on paper. About a 6 or 7 piece pull. Photo emulsion method. From 1997. Most of you know probably know how silkcreen is done, but for those who don't here's a quick summary. If you use photo emulsion as done in this one, you have to first find photos to work with, or you could draw your artwork on paper or transparent film, cutting them out to use as stencils to apply to your silkcreen. But for photos, you print them out on a printer on transparency film and then place them backwards on your screen, covering one side completely with a green, paint like substance, making sure there are no bubbles. when it dries, you put it on a special lamp table that burns the photo image into your screen. But once its burned into the screen, it's there until you use solvents and high powered water hoses to get it out. And on top of all this, you can only do one color at a time. You get your paper lined up and registered, and with your squeegee, pull toward you so all the color is transferred to the paper underneath. You quickly grab your next paper and do the same for as many prints as you want. Think of yourself as a human CMYK printer, doing a run of prints one color at a time. Careful planning is important in silkscreen because any part of your art in one particular color must be done at the same time(like a person's hat and another's belt) I had a very hard time with registration at first but I finally figured it out. Registration is when you get all the colors to align perfectly, so that colors are not off like a bad print job you see in low quality color newsprints. There is more this process than this simple explanation but you get the idea. Based on the major influences in rock, r&b, and blues, including Little Richard, "Blues Boy" BB King, Louis Jordan, Muddy Waters, Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, Elvis Presley, Bob Wills, Jimmie Rodgers, Fats Domino, Bill Monroe, and Big Joe Turner. Can you find the ear incorporated into this silkscreen?? Images in this also include lyrics from Crudup's "That's All Right, Mama," a map of the Memphis TN area, a small ad for Fats Domino, and article about Bill Monroe. All images from photos except Big Joe Turner, done with marker on transparent film. Copyright 2004, Dann S. Green, DSG Design