Gocco, you say?
I could go through and talk a bit more about the whole process, but if you're curious google "gocco". There's a pretty cool gocco group at Flickr and there are several gocco artists out there. Basically it's a small silkscreening press that makes postcard size images. You can also print more than one color at a time (which is awesome!) and isn't messy.
So the following depict the process that took about 40 minutes from drawing to finishing ~40 images. I tried it twice since the first set didn't come out quite how I wanted.
My aunt and uncle own a local bakery and since I didn't have an image that I needed 50 copies of, I decided I'd make oversized business card things. I'm not sure they're really going to use them, but I thought it'd be a good first project.
This is the very first gocco print I made. The rest printed much better.
While the rest of the prints did turn out better than the first, the different colors are a little too close--I think it might work better printed on two screens--but for a first time not too bad.
So I tried a second image that was photocopied from computer text and drawing with a riso pen. These turned out much cleaner.
Things I learned from my first gocco adventure:
1. Don't put different colors too close together until you know what you're doing (which I don't).
2. Make sure that your photocopy is clean otherwise there's a bunch of smudgy stuff on the prints.
3. Make sure that you proof your original for the correct information--who needs the entire phone number on a business card? Totally overrated. ;)
In any case, it was really fun and pretty quick--much faster than traditional silkscreening. While the prints are small, they're fine for cards and other small projects. If I come up with a good short story, I can even use the gocco to print small pamphlet books. How fun!
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As Nicole would say 'O-M-G'. Those are too adorable for words.
Sorry that your auntie is leaving so many comments! Don't you love when people comment?!!
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