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Offline DCSP John

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Museum Quality Art 11/21
« on: November 21, 2014, 04:14:07 PM »
...created everyday on the squeegee / floodbar table...




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Re: Museum Quality Art 11/21
« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2014, 04:20:12 PM »
Hahaha.

Just the other day I went to grab a rag and I glanced at it and was like "that's an awesome print" and then
I realized it was just from wiping up spills. Discharge of course.

"My Kid Could Draw That" is a great movie about abstract art if you are into that sort of thing.


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Re: Museum Quality Art 11/21
« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2014, 04:21:28 PM »
My first job in the industry was cleaning screens at a flat stock shop.
I cleaned on a big table, covered with a stack of billboard sectional prints, white side up.
It was one of my duties to pick out cleaning papers that by sheer luck had artistic merit. One of a kind prints created with various combinations of poster and enamel inks, dissolved hand cut amber film, and xylene and lacquer thinner.
These were presented every couple of weeks to a local interior designer who bought some, mounted and framed them, and passed them along for the big bucks.
That rug really tied the room together, did it not?

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Re: Museum Quality Art 11/21
« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2014, 12:56:34 PM »
Ah, xylene and lacquer thinner, the breakfast of screenprinters from the 60's and 70's, LOL. Why am I still alive after all that?

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Re: Museum Quality Art 11/21
« Reply #4 on: November 24, 2014, 01:02:25 PM »
Ah, xylene and lacquer thinner, the breakfast of screenprinters from the 60's and 70's, LOL. Why am I still alive after all that?

Steve

One of the toughest parts of that job was not mixing up which screens got which. Reclaiming a six foot "keeper" was frowned upon.
In fact, major money was saved (and made) by my bosses by often playing the odds on re-orders, saving the screen, but still charging the same full price.
(something that I actually consider legitimate)
That rug really tied the room together, did it not?