THE SILK-SCREEN PROCESS (Concluded)

A few adjustments to get the register
and you should be rolling along like a
machine, pushing the paint from one end
to the other with plenty of pressure on
the squeegee.

The speed with which you can turn out
the cards will surprise you. It is not
unusual to do a hundred an hour. Watch
for screen clogging. At the first sign
of portions of the screen not printing,
or getting specks in them, clean up
the screen with gasoline. In about two
hours or more the cards may be ready
for the second colour. Make sure, how-
ever, that they are quite dry.

So there you are (if you have read
this far). You are in possession of

enough knowledge to try this out for
“yourself. If this is as hard to read
“as it was to write, I don't suppose
“there will be many attempts.
But remember, as an artist, and one

who will be going out into the hard
cold world to make your living, this
information may start you into a lucra-
tive and growing business. i. gourd
show you unbelievably clever work pro-
duced by much more complicated tech-
niques than the one described. In the
United States, enormous quantities of
silk screen work are required and pro=
duced annually. The appointments and
size of the average studio do credit to
the industry,

Large amounts are produced in Eastern
Canada also. It is better to forget
local markets, as a great deal is im-
ported into the province, and what is
left is the cause of quite a "price
war" among the sign studios.

I might add that only one studio in
the city does anything approaching fine
work, and as follows, gets most of the
business,

So, fellow students,
these days be sitting on the steps of
some advertising agency with a port-
folio beneath your arm wondering what
to do next, and then in your darkest
hour will flash the memory of this ar-
ticle.

Believe it or not!

you may one of

Frank Kaestner

0 ate ce

OUTDOOR SKETCHING IN THE ROCKIES (Cont'd
A special feature of the country
near Mount Assiniboine is the number of
beautiful lakes, some fairly large and
some quite small, each with it's own
special color of blue-green and each in
it's own particular setting, each close
up under the piles of morainal debris
which the glacier brings down, as Lake
Magog. Or filling a little basin right
under the snow slopes, reflecting their
receding shapes in it’s cold green sur-
face as Lake Gog, under Mount Towers.Or
a little farther back from the mount-
ains in a setting of fir andlarch trees
as Sunburst Lake and Moose Pond, .where
the moose did really come and stand in
the water, and would be seen making off
through the trees when one came near.
The other special feature of the Mt.
Assiniboine district is the beautiful
alpine meadows, miles and miles of open

country stretching down the valleys,
knee-deep in grass and all kinds of
brilliantly-colored flowers, There are

many varieties of these meadow flowers
but they generally like to grow in col-
onies,thereby adding greatly to the ef-
fect from a color point of view. Some
places would be vivid with a patch of
Indian Paint Brush, some would have
Yellow Columbines, where the meadows
sloped more gently upwards would be
found the bluest Forget-me-nots that I
have ever seen,and in one place in par-
ticular, I shall never forget where a
slope covered with Asters glanced and
reflected the light in the foreground
exactly repeating the purplish color of
Wonder Peak in the background.

As may be imagined, I thoroughly en=
joyed myself wandering about in the
country, sometimes on smaller climbs or
trips with others, but usually alone
when I wanted to work, trying to paint
what I could, but finding it awful dif-
ficult. It was all a struggle to try to
capture Mount Assiniboine on canvas for
instance, to choose from amongst all the
splendid things around one and decide
how much detail to put in and how much
to leave out.Also it wasa struggle with
mosquitos, and the get-up which I wore
in self defence was a wonder to behold.
Everything I painted is well speckled
with dead mosquitos painted in, But of
course all this was nothing, once one

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