Mixing Speedball Paints and Ink - Screen Printing at Home

For screen printing, I have constantly made use of Speedball screen printing paint. I know there are several brands out there and everybody has a distinct preference, but I have had a pretty decent encounter working with Speedball. I have discovered that these paints are excellent to screen with, mix good to make all kinds of shades and hold up superb in the wash. In reality I think they are superior than the paints applied is store bought screen printed T-shirts. Speedball screen printing paints come is two designs: fabric and opaque. Speedball fabric paint is for light colored fabrics and opaque paint is superior for dark fabrics, it covers greater so the dark color do not bleed by means of the paint. Also the opaque paint has a slightly metallic look, they have a glittery appear. Each paint style is on the market in a large number of colors, but I have normally purchased the 6 pack of paints. These come with the three main colors, black, white and 1 additional. You can make any shade of any missing color by mixing the primaries. Despite the fact that Speedball screen printing paint is a wonderful product, I am not continually happy with the color straight out of the jar. The colors are too robust: The fabric is a dead black, and every single of the primaries looks better following getting mixed with a tiny about white paint.

6 Pack Speedball Fabric Screen Printing Paint:
Black
White
Blue
Red
Yellow
Green

6 Pack Speedball Opaque Screen Printing Paint:
Black Pearl
Pearly White
Blue Topaz
Raspberry
Citrine
Silver

Mixing paint will most likely be an necessary part of your screen printing activities. It will be critical to have smaller jars to shop your mixed paint so you do not have to mix paint everytime you get ready to total a project and to save extra paint.

I will go through all the colors and how to make them.

The Speedball Fabric black is a dead black, I did not like the way it looked the first time I screened with it. Artist will tell you to obtain a live black you want to mix all your colors together. On the other hand I was able to get a black I was pleased with by mixing a modest about of Speedball fabric white into it. You can get to a grey color by mixing in more white.

The opaque black does not look black to me. It's alot more grey or silver. When I use it, I mix in the Speedball fabric black. This gives me a great black, with a metallic appear.

You wont want to mix any paints for white. There is Speedball fabric white and Speedball opaque white. The opaque white looks significantly more beige to me, so I have not used it very significantly. The fabric white has worked particularly properly for me even on dark fabrics.

The Speedball fabric blue is a royal blue. If you require sky blue or infant blue mix fabric blue and fabric white. The opaque blue is also a dark blue and has a metallic look to it. If you require a light blue, just mix in some fabric white.

Fabric red look decent, but you can add white or black for a lighter or darker shade. The opaque red is essentially raspberry. I only use raspberry when I am mixing for pink or purple.

I haven't had significantly use for yellow, but once again you can mix it with white or black to get shades.

The fabric 6 pack comes with green, so your all set there. If you want an opaque green you can mix Citrine and Blue Topaz (yellow and blue).

If you need to have orange you can mix fabric red and fabric yellow or citrine and raspberry from the opaque set.

Any shade of brown you will need can be produced by mixing proportion of yellow red and blue.

To make pink I mix the opaque raspberry and the fabric white paints.

Purple can be developed by mixing red and blue. A metallic purple can be produced by mixing raspberry and blue topaz.

To make gold initially make brown with the fabric red, fabric blue and opaque yellow. Add extra yellow and a smaller amount of opaque silver.