Well, technically, 11 of the first 12 as ZAP, being larger, isn’t printed on the same test print, but still, this is where we’re at. If you missed my post about this earlier in the year, I am making a handful of test prints onto which I pull every color of every weekly print. By the end of the year, each of these prints will have around 120 layers, and they already have a different weight and presence when compared to a regular print.

I think it’s interesting to follow the progress in the animation, to see how the colors lay on top of each other, and how sometimes a certain print will just kind of reset the whole deal.

I don’t think I’ve mentioned it yet, but along with the normal prints I do every week, I am printing five of these comprehensive prints. Each of these 5 pieces of paper will have every single layer of ink that goes down for The Weekly Print. It’s going to be a beautiful mess when it’s done.

I plan to update and post this animation at the end of every month, just so you can see the progression. This image also shows how transparent some of the inks I use are, for those of you not necessarily knowledgeable in the realm of screenprinting. That transparency can be used to layer two colors to create a third, thus lessening the number of squeegee pulls one actually has to make for a single print.