MATERIALS

1. Ghost prints work with any of the water-soluble drawing materials or inked-based images. The heavier your drawing materials (or ink) on the screen, the more likely there will be enough residual material left in the screen mesh to take a ghost print, or two, or three.

PROCESS

1. Print your first image as you would normally. This image will have the most information and will be the most saturated. Each print you take after that will be lighter and have less detail.

2. You can either print the ghost print ‘dry’, meaning that you don’t use any ink or transparent base to push the image onto the paper below (run the squeegee over the image as many times as needed) or you could use transparent base (tinted or clear) to print the image. The transparent base is a good option as it richens the color of the drawing materials, compensating for the lightness of the image.

3. Continue to take additional ghost prints if you wish. After 2 or 3 ghost prints, not much of an image is transferred to the paper.

4. Clean the screen with water and a gentle cleaner such as Fantastik. Staining of the screen mesh can be removed with Magic Erasers or a very dilute bleach solution.

ADVANCED MOVES

1. After printing the first image, you could add additional drawing materials to the screen and then take the ghost print. There will likely be some evidence of the previous image. This is also referred to as ‘serial’ printing.

2. Printing an image using 100% ink, rather than transparent base, creates a more opaque and obscuring effect.