About the Artistry of Digital Technology in Silk Screen Print Creation

With the development of the times, high-tech digital technology has greatly facilitated the production of screen-printing, and has also enriched the performance language of screen-printing. Silkscreen prints, with their strong sense of industry and design, naturally incorporate digital technology into their own performance techniques.

The digital technologies involved in screen printing include the "shooting" process of digital photography and picture output. Digital photography refers to the process of acquiring images through digital equipment and means related to photography, and then editing and processing them through computers and image processing software. “Put out” is to output the edited picture through a special film output device of the film company, making it a “black manuscript” capable of photoreceptor imaging, facilitating screen printing.

Good film and equipment are indispensable factors for shooting a good movie. Similarly, if you want to obtain high-quality and clear pictures, you need a high-pixel digital camera. According to the expression needs of different creative themes, you can use a digital camera to collect a large number of rich and vivid living materials, and then select the ideal picture from it for further processing. The greatest advantage of digital pictures is that people can use the computer to process them with image processing software. The methods and means of processing are diverse, comprehensive, and fast. This is a traditional darkroom treatment approach. It can simulate all the special processing techniques in the traditional darkroom technique and has many unique methods, such as the color adjustment of lightness, hue and purity can be easily and accurately achieved, and the special effects of various filters can also be obtained. The use of functions such as clipping, gluing, etc. can also make the picture appear unexpectedly effective. In the theme creation of screen printing, digital photography plays an important role in the completion of the entire work. It can be said that digital technology has given silk screen printing a rapid development.

At present, modern screen printing technology has developed quite well in China. If you want to achieve the same chroma and accuracy as the parent image, you can print and print with four-color reduction. However, if digitally processed images are printed in four colors, the result is undoubtedly the “version” of silkscreen prints disappearing in countless color spots. The printing process is a mechanical repetition. Heavy computer flavor.

How to artify the digital technology in screen printing? At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Shi Tao stated: “To the people, it is impossible. It cannot be done. It cannot be legal, but it is to the law.” The story of Zhuangzi's “Buddha Solving the Cow” also describes the free realm achieved by highly skilled techniques as vivid. These artistic viewpoints that “do not go beyond what you want” all point out that: While artistic communication activities are regular and regular, they are not mechanical operations that follow certain prescribed procedures. Laws and freedoms are completely in the artistic process. Uniform. Use digital technology reasonably, make it a theme expression service for artistic works, and flexibly combine digital language with other screen-print expression language, and boldly “operate” it to make a difference and add luster to the work. .

In order to enhance the artistic expression of digital language in silkscreen prints, a large number of repeated experiments are required. Through practice, we can see that the "integration" method, "grafting" method and "transplantation" method are effective methods for digital technology transformation. The "integration" method is for the four-color reduction printing method. "Integration" is the integration of four digital separations into one or two editions of spot colors. The advantages of screen printing are reflected in the handling and control of colors, and the "version" taste determines the unique limitations of the language of print expression. In this sense, the color of the silk screen print is not the general color overlay and blending, but the organization and construction of the entire screen color. For the four-color printing mechanical and single defects, they need to be repositioned and adjusted, so that the digital film technology is also close to the "version" taste and "painting" taste. In the design of the manuscript, highlight the advantages of the color of screen printing, use the spot color to replace the four-color reduction, according to the needs of the screen, design the main or auxiliary version as a spot color, and then combine with other color plates. This not only enhances the overall sense of the color of the work, but also reflects the accuracy of digital language imaging.

The "grafting" method refers to the integrated expression method of digital language combined with traditional hand-painted screen techniques in terms of the specific application of digital language in screen printing. After the film is processed, the electronic version presented in the original image is boldly destroyed. According to the concept and the needs of the screen, sharp tools were used to reconstruct the original image order by scraping, wiping, scratching, and carving. In addition, the manuscript can be directly reprocessed by hand-painting. The hand-painted expression method is rich and varied: the density of strokes and lines, the density of wet and dry ink, etc., can be used to represent the images required by the picture and Texture. With such a process, the printed image after exposure is a totally different visual image before processing. Taking various forms of "destruction" and establishing a new picture order, it has a positive significance for the successful transformation of digital technology into "painting taste."
The "transplantation" method is another economical and practical method used in the sub-version. Its purpose is to make use of the arbitrarily changing characteristics of screen printing. For screen printing, the color separation is based on the design of the artwork. The screen effect of the artwork is to be achieved through the process of color separation. Sorting is the process of classifying, overlaying, and printing color artwork. If the color of the artwork is complex, multiple photofinishes are required. In addition to the traditional version of the multi-color provincial technology, "transplantation" bonding method is another provincial version of the method to transform the digital version. For example: Use scrap newspapers to tear (cut) the desired shape (normal or negative) according to the needs of the printing plate, and then paste it on the front of the printed computer image plate. In this way, the positive (negative) shape of the newspaper overlaps with the genuine graphics, resulting in a third image during printing. The result is fresh and interesting, and the torn (cut) print is natural and saves the screen version. This is an alteration of the digital image in another way, which is easy to operate.
After undergoing a series of "surgery" such as "destroying", "integrating", "grafting" and "transplanting", digital technology has changed its face and whether the postoperative effect is "rejection" depends on the combination of digital technology and other screen performance techniques. And how was the painting on the entire screen? The significance of practice lies in the art of digital technology, which enables it to serve the artistic creation of silk screen prints in order to realize the true value of digital technology in screen printing.

Xue Lei was born in Nanchang, Jiangxi in 1971. In 2005, he graduated from the Screening Department of China Academy of Art with a master degree in screen. Now teaches at the Fine Arts Academy of Zhejiang Normal University. Screen-printing "Examination of Zhang Sheng's Conveyance Department" participated in the 14th National Print Art Exhibition; woodcut painting "Re-drinking Tea Continuing New Song" participated in "Zhejiang Fine Arts Exhibition to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China"; Woodcut "Red Memory" participated in "Celebration" The 80th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China in Zhejiang Province; the screen-printing "Freedom Movement in Space" participated in the "Second China Screen Printing Exhibition" and won the Outstanding Award.