PARIS 68 REDUX / XR PRINT WORKSHOP

Okay so you wanna have the most fun ever? You’ve come to the right place !!!

Welcome to the XR Printworkshop. The poster making place, using lo-fi tech, lots of creativity, lots of hands and a whole lot of fun !!!

This is Clown and Robots’ world. Just bashing this out here to get the ball rolling and inspire y’all to set up your own XR Printworkshops all over the country (and beyond) !!!! FUCK YEAH !”£$%&

If you want to get in contact with PARIS68redux your best bet is https://www.instagram.com/paris68redux/

Clown and Robot started this project as “Paris 68 Redux” reinterpreting the work of the “Atelier Poplulaire”. The “AP” were groups of students, union members and everyone coming together (in Paris May, 1968), work-shopping ideas, then voting on which ones to mass produce, printing tons and going straight out to fly post Paris. For their work check out this mega book:

Beauty Is in the Street by Philippe Vermès, Johan Kugelberg.

Unfortunately 50 years on… SAME SHIT and we’re getting ECOLOGICAL BREAKDOWN coming down on us, the only answer is…

DISOBEY NOW, lets make beautiful ephemeral art, and go down Rebelling and Disobeying and laughing and fighting (non-violently) and most importantly… loving.

Fly-posting is a joke crime, so its a great fun way into Civil Disobediance.

Robot and Clown’s work is based around stencilling, so all you neeed is thin paper for the posters (chip shop paper), thick paper for cutting stencils and emulsion paint etc… then have a workshop and make tons. The great thing they do is prepare the sheets by doing one or two layers of stencilling or screenprinting.

Some of these are very simple, just two layer (check the sign language!) and the alternating patterns...

En masse they look AMAZING!

And yet they are made up from simple components that are fun to do, if its not quite good enough then whack over another layer!

Paris 68 Redux style, mostly screen-printed which is great fun too…

Nice off centre weird colours…

Too Good…

Okay this one is way more complex layer of screen-printing. If you add a few of these to a wall then you will raise up the look of the whole thing!

Soho Street scene during October 2019.

During the October Rebellion a temporary workshop was set up called “Krusty’s Kave”. Here it is in full effect. Happy cat is screenprinting the second colour for some backgrounds, or simple prints… while Tongue Out is stencilling

Things you will need

A4 Printer
Tracing Paper or Trace-down transfer paper
Eraser
Newsprint
Cutting Mat
Scalpel Handel and 10A Scalpel Blades
I would use Stanley for most cutting, no chance of blade shatter, then scalpel for details
safety ruler
Scissors
4” Foam Rollers
4” Paint Trays
2B or softer pencil, maybe a fat one ?
Masking Tape
thick 275G Paper for making stencils , called “Bread and Butter”, reference: BB272, £15.60 per 25 sheets + vat
from : www.johnpurcell.net
newsprint from John Purcell , reference: News1 , £19.40 + vat per 500 sheets
Selection of emulsion paint (see XR colours)

These stencil PDFs are available for download here.

Learn more

SIMPLE WORKSHOP / HOW TO :

download and print out your favourite stencils (see above) OR make your own drawings and Stencilize them OR using the FUCXED CAPS font in a graphics program layout and then print out your words OR steal stuff you like from the internet !!
I assemble my A4 prints with sellotape, then when lined up and held by tape I use kids glue to properly stick them together, then lay the tracing paper over the top and heavily trace the line using the soft pencils, then flip the trace-down over graphite side down onto the thick stencil paper and go over the lines from the other side, yes its the back to school technique !!
Using the cutting mat and Stanley to cut out the hole, make sure you leave enough supports so that the whole thing doesn’t fall apart !!! and if you have straight lines the safety ruler, finishing off the intricate bits with a scapel.
Then roller through the stencils with a lightly loaded foam roller using emulsion paint, too much paint will bleed underneath, then hang to dry.
Keep going until you are happy and have enough for a fly-posting session. JOB DONE.

Stencils are light, so easy to transport.

Here Robot is adding a third layer on this stencil only poster…

Sweet!

Pinocchio stenciling on a great background, while Alien does the same over screen-printed gorgeousness.

This is the shit !!!$% WOW!

Robot is doing a two colour screen-print of the sign language for HELP, using a stencil to screen-print through. He’s about to put down the second colour, the black outline. Skull and Dizzy Face are making super simple placards. We should be repurposing estate-agent signs and SWP placards like this! Bosh, one flat colour. Bosh, a one colour stencil, job done!

Screen-printing can be done using newsprint stencils which can only be used once but are cheap and quick to cut. Plasticky materials can be bought from art print supplies shops for semi-permanent stencils. If you are doing a large print run then photo exposing the screens is the way to go.

The two colour prints, which are great on there own, or can be a great base for some stencil work.

PASTE UP

Okay it’s paste-up time. Mix up your paste; be it Solvite or the more Eco alternative of flour and water paste. Now only one pint before you go out or CHAOS will ensue.