Above: the original design for my mailer piece. In case you can't count that high, that's 42 distinct colors in that piece, not counting the white background. That means 42 layers of ink, made of 42 screens, out of 42 uniquely mixed inks. It truly would be an impressive mailer piece, for sure, but something just told me it wouldn't have been worth it to print...
So I tried it with 4 colors instead, not counting the white background: I separated the cyan, magenta, yellow, and black channels from each other in the final image, converted those channels to half tones so that they could be printed and work out as silkscreen stencils, printed those channels out onto individual transparencies, exposed some preprimed screens to light through those printouts (it's literally taking a photograph), set the screens by bathing them in water, and used those as individual "channels" for ink in making the shirt, printing cyan on top of magenta on top of yellow on top of black. The result...
Well it's more Joan Miro than Lauren Faust, color-wise. Hard to believe, even after seeing the original design (heck, designing the original design!) that there's supposed to be rainbows in there... Also kind of reminds me of some of the Fauvists; those guys were way cool... Still, not really what I'd had in mind. Oh well?
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