How to Print Like Warhol | Tate
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- Discover how artist Andy Warhol made his colourful and iconic silkscreen prints.
From Brillo boxes and black bean soup to portraits of films stars, Andy Warhol is famous for his bright and bold paintings and prints that celebrate 1960s popular culture. This style of art is called pop art.
Printmaking appealed to Warhol as it allowed him to repeat a basic image and create endless variations of it by using different colours or sometimes adding paint to the printed surface.
Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?
Andy Warhol
In 1972, Warhol made a series of screenprints of Chairman Mao, the leader of communist China. Mao may seem an unlikely celebrity, but in the early 1970s America’s president, Richard Nixon, visited Beijing and Mao’s portrait was everywhere - making him something of a contemporary icon. Warhol used a photograph from the cover of the Little Red Book (a book of quotations by Chairman Mao) as the starting point for his portrait.
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List of Materials for 'How to Print like Warhol':
Making the stencils
• High Contrast Black and White Image (e.g. photo of Michael Manley)
• Tracing paper (to print the image onto)
• Paint brush
• Black acrylic paint
• Drafting film (for autographed/hand-painted stencils)
• Photographic positive (created by printing the black and white image onto the tracing paper)
Making the screens
• photo-emulsion + sensitizer (mixed together to create photo-sensitive emulsion to coat on the screen)
• screens
• Coating trough
• Drying cabinet
• Exposure unit (in which to expose the screens)
• Water / hose (to wash off the emulsion after exposure)
Making the inks
• acrylic paint
• acrylic screen printing medium
Making the prints
• Hinge/Jiffy clamps
• Secure base (e.g. mdf board fixed to table top)
• Masking tape & Parcel Tape
• Spatula
• Cutting mat + Stanley knife
• Card (to create registration marks)
• Acetate (to create registration sheet)
• Squeegee
• Paper for printing
• Sponge
• Bucket & Water
• Newsprint
there’s nothing better and more stressful than screen printing in a classroom full of other people screen printing
eli hauser This comment spoke to my soul
“better and more stressful”?
Jajaaaa
100 % .... It's amazing when it all comes together but when it doesn't it's horrendous 😂🙈
i felt this comment with every fiber of my being, as i'm a plastic arts uni student who picked up screenprinting as a technical course for about a year and a half >o
This is the cleanest screenprinting studio I've ever seen in my life.
LOL
confirmed
exactly lol 😀😀
Oh okay. Let me just go ahead and try this in my apartment.
Markus Ferris you actually can, it's not very hard to make a diy set-up similar to hers, you just need some mesh, sticks, nails to keep the sticks together, glue or some other option to keep the mesh on the wooden sticks (make sure you stretch it out reaaaaally well but without it getting torn) and the hinges are optional, just try to have all the layers lined up correctly before printing. The inks are a little bit more on the pricey side but I think the result is worth it. And there is the photosensitive emulsion as well... I recently tried this method during a summer school programme (with more professional equipment than the setup I described though) and the end result was beautiful -I was so pleased that I am seriously considering giving screenprinting/silkprinting a chance for making artworks to sell.
Make smaller screens. Look up Mod Podge silk screen I do that in a small room.
It looks like socialized old form of printing.
Can you do it with a printed piece of paper and baby oil? I remember creating something like this for a T-shirt but forgot the DIY process.
I’ve done it. Not that big a deal, you just need to plan ahead and know what you’re doing.
Was searching for a quick diy tutorial. Looks like I just need a small factory and then I can get at
I was fortunate to be friends with Andy in the 70s I was in art school at school of visual arts SVA I was invited to an art show and met him , he invited me to his show , studio. A unique man. He helped me through the maze of the art field. A special time in NYC then
Interesting comment. I did some screen printing for him back then. I never bought in to what he was about, that lifestyle, etc. I suppose I could have ended up wealthy had I "planned" to acquire a lot of his prints directly, but held true to my standards. Oh well, I ended up very successful from other avenues. At that time, I did not realize that he and that whole era of hangers-on would soon all be gone.
This is why I love our century so much. Legendary musea, explaining how to print like master artists in high quality video format, delivered to your doorstep for free on TH-cam.
wow... this was so cool I think I looked at Warhol in the past and internally said, "oh that's simple" -- holy crap, it is not!! this is actually quite awesome. I have a whole new appreciation. this series makes an artists work really come alive for me. it unlocks something in your mind that allows you to see things you otherwise wouldn't. thanks for this.
FACT: WARHOL DIDN'T DO. THE. SCREEN PRINTING RATHER HE HAD A BUNCH OF. FRIENDS AND AND ADDICTS AND BOYS/HUSTLERS. ALL. HIGH AF WHO DID THE WORK FOR HIM. AND LATER HE WOULD. SIGN. THE PRINTS WITH A BLACK PERMANENT MARKER.
@@ronneyrendon5045 yeah lol. like saying bezos runs every package; there's a reason he called it "The Factory"!!
@@samaraisnt true, but when you buy stuff on amazon you know that it wasn't made by bezos rather bezos just created and owns the company vs warhol, when you see a work of art by "warhol" in an art museum or read about one of his prints selling at sotheby's for 20 million dollars people assume that the work was actually done by warhol himself which couldn't be further from the truth.
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“As Artists, we never know how it’s going to turn out. And THAT’S where the excitement lies!”
I'm so lucky to have seen these works in the museum itself 🙏
YAWWWWWWWWN
i love it when youtube recommends me new channels with good content
more process videos please! you never find process videos like these in a fine arts context. thanks!
Thanks. This was very instructional. I had no idea before this video about how Warhol made those iconic prints of his.
Tell us how to print money like Warhol.
Gracias por tomarte el tiempo de crear este vídeo. Me inspiró mucho
Silkscreen is a more difficult and complicated task than I thought before! Thank for the video.
Thanks for showing this process!
Actually Warhol painted the colors by hand directly on the canvas and then did the black screen print over it.
Warhol was brilliant. Can’t wait to go and see the exhibition in Jan. 👍
So beautiful!
Thank you so much! Love your work and your video is so helpful!
Go Marianne, great demo ,the process is very well explained
thank you! this is amazing!
omg why am I only seeing this video now, it answered so much questions I had and offered me a new direction of my art portfolio . If I got accepted next semester I'll give this video full credit lmao
Love it! Looks exciting to do.
Well done. I like your art. Thank you for sharing.
No wonder he called it "factory"
Hrnek Bezucha .yes
That and it was a old shoe factory!
Congratulations. You are a very good teacher . Love your vídeo !
I just finished reading Susie Hodge's "The short story of art" and came here to understand how silkscreen is made. Great explanation, thanks!
Very cool style to expose how its done. I've always just went to the copy store, printed paper and incorporated it as is and add paint or use a transfer to clear gloss and paste into a painting. Thanks for sharing! I used to sell Warhol prints for a year in a gallery. :)
yup thpught the same! feels simpler but i suspect warhol had a more streamlined efficient way to SS print tbh.
@@samaraisnt good point. I’m also wondering how this process would work for some of his large works.
so cool! thanks for sharing
That takes some dedication. The process makes me feel a bit anxious; tedious to the superb.
That is why Warhol hired artists to do it for him.
abstractsbybrian that Tates some dedication
FAR FROM IT - QUICK WAY TO GET LOADS OF WORKS OF ART..
not really. I mean artists paint pictures and painted paintings can take weeks or months or years! She basically made her art prints in an afternoon! Its like the last stop on the art train before you pull into the lazy art ghetto of just printing digital prints on your Epson!!!! I love digital prints too...but this process seems to maintain a bit of physical craft to image making process which instills some sense of authenticity and truth which is kind of absent in digital printing.
well said!
Yay screenprinting! ❤❤❤
Awesome video. Love it. I want to try to recreate the results with a digital process.
That was A LOT OF WORK..also to mention the equipments she used. The only thing i have right now is amazement..
Now that was super cool!
AMAZING!
amazing video! thank you
perfect. j'ai appris énormément sur le repérage et comment faire tenir l'écran. merci
I wish I had ideas like him incredible man
now you do! go and make your own stuff!
☀️🌻Thank you very much for the interesting art movie . 🌻☀️
Just the best …thanks
Oh gosh, this vid makes me miss my silk screen class so much!!! TT TT
I had no idea what was going on in this vid but I enjoyed it thoroughly
awesome video
This is a fun video. I'd like to see a more in depth followup from the same artist.
There are many different sizes of screen prints. It’s fairly easy to. You don’t necessarily have to do more than one or two colors. It’s actually fairly easy.
Your screenprinting skills are Bad Ass!! 😍😎💪💖👏👏👊👐
whoaaaaaaah!!!!!!! this is SICK i love it
When you said you wash your screen clean of ink, what do you recommend using for this? There are a few products out there and I'm curious what folks like, what works and what products people are using for clean up. Cheers.
Learned this in high school & did a local folk bands shirts soon afterwards.
Great video
One of the best crafting videos i have watched
wow at my first time t have seen Warhol’s painting i thought he was master of draw:) but after see this i really think he is so creative smart and real genius🙏 love pop art
i'm impressed
Excellent, Top 10
Acetateis a reall good idea !
Looks like using adobe Photoshop with manual
Maybe that’s where Adobe got the concept for layers :)
Thats essentially what it is hahah
Looks so easy, I guess I can do this in my livingroom.
Cool!
Great. What kind of paper do you use?
I'm printing in acquarela paper but once printed the paper lose its plain form.
How do you deal with this?
What are you printing them on? Just regular paper? Been screen printing shirts for 11 years, just curious of what you put that print on
I'd love to get into screen printing. 🤗
but how do you make the black paint into a fade or shaded region of the work? oh my gosh. but thank you for the video! very FUN!
Great Video... could the next one just show equipment recommended for the project ...
I'm assuming you can but just to make sure, you can use the same method for shirts right????? or at least similar, to get the same effect?
Fantástico
Does the printing materials have to be in png form with not white but transparent background?
It's magic! I’m a French fan of Andy Warhol, I sing his life and his
death "Warhol’s Words", played on my channel!
Question: the emulsion is “light sensitive” but you apply it with lights on. Is that ok? Thanks
Yes it's okay, this kind of an emulsion is not that sensitive like photoemulsion which used on photopapers. Problems starts over 10 minutes appromixetly. As you can see in the video after you apply the emulsion coat you put it to some dark space to dry it. So it's not a big problem but of course do not take it to sunlight
For art we did prints using linoleum blocks or something and it was such a nerve racing but fun experience:) Andy is one of my inspirations and it was so fun printing
Haili that’s sounds cool. How did it go?
But damn I wish I had seen this when I had access to a full print shop in high school
Nice video!
hello, what paint did you use? was it acrylic or plastisol?
Hi I hope you get this message as it's a while ago you posted this video. I would like to know why you didn't have to have a darkroom to put the image on the silk screen as everything seemed to be in the daylight in the video. Please let me know. Great video. Thanks Matt
Did Warhol print on canvas or paper? If canvas, was it raw canvas or was it primed? Great video. Looks like fun!
Wish to have studio as big as this
There goes my hero
So how many different screens did you use? I met Andy in 1987 down near Wall Street
what size was the paper you printed the image on ? it was tracing paper or duralar ?
For the ink use acrylic paint mix with medium
I learned about Warhol in my art school
Love it! I’m also a serigrafista
AWESOMENESS !
nice
I'm pretty sure they didn't use photoshop or light sensitive emulsion in the mid 1960's. Warhol famously didn't use register marks for his screen prints, hence the unregistered look of his multiple colour prints.
Why would you think that emulsion wasn't used in the 60s ? All it takes is the photo being printed on a transparent medium. Photoshop just allows for faster and easier control on contrast. The only difference is that back then the tweaks to the BW image would have been taken care of by the photo lab producing the master.
I like this technique but I work using oil paint. Equipment looks kind of expensive. Do you know of a source to buy the minimum screens necessary to do this?
Try using Google.
Did she make bitmap image in photoshop or what? And does someone know how warhol made photographic film positives?
Could you say what ink, paper and medium you're using?
Buen video
Fabrizio's comment is correct. Warhol was an "act", a charlatan, popular in his day. His work was executed by other people. I should know, because I was one of them. I was a friend of Warhol's main printer, and I sometimes helped to print silk screens on linen canvas. These were mixed media, that is, silk screen polaroid photos printed over underpaintings on canvas. What astonished me most was that Warhol did not even do the quick brushy underpaintings! Haha. Those were also done by his printer! Bottom line: these works were 100% created by hired assistants, NEVER touched by the "artist"!!! I was also rather aghast at the lack of professionalism in use to produce those works, things that would upset any truly professional printmaker. But no one asked me for my suggested improvements! Why, one may ask? Because the cruder and more accidental in appearance, the more it fit with Warhol's outlook. He was truly about making money without regard to any past standards of artistic skill or excellence. And to this day, his absence from quality oversight is entirely unnoticed in the big auction house results. The Art World is a very strange place, indeed. Many modern artists garner vastly higher prices than the real Old Masters!!!
Ok but getting someone to execute your ideas would mean you hold the intellectual property / creative aspect of the work. Especially if its work that you have the ability to do yourself but not the time...so a visual kind of orchestrator / director. If I had able operatives to help me I'd /we'd make lots of work...depending on how creative you are - you may need people to get all of hese ideas and versions off anyway.
what mesh count would you recommend for this process?
It's not a cheap process. Usually printing companies have this kind of gear. You can do small ones at home.
what about the offset is this directly on the paper or offset at all?
did you intentionally not print a halftoned photo? either way, you got fantastic results. cheers
I cant be the only one who now wants to buy one of the prints she just created...
A great pity not to display the final pictures to see properly !
YOU SHOULD TRY MY 'SCRUNCH' METHOD - VERY SIMPLY - WITH THE PHOTO LAYER, SCREW UP A SHEET OF PAPER, FLATTEN IT OUT AND PRINT ON IT. DONT RECHARCH THE SCREEN BUT THROW AWAY THE SCREWED UP PAPER PRINT AND PRINT ON A NEW SHEET OF PAPER... THIS RESULTS IN A CRACKLE EFFECT AS WHERE THE SCREWED UP PAPER TOUCHED THE SCREEN THE RESULT IS THE LINES...ENJOY..
Does anyone know what mesh count warhol used in his silkscreens
Can I ask what was the mesh count on your screen?
Ah that lovely squeaky sound of screenprint. Interesting video