Hope everyone had a good holiday. Mine was pretty uneventful, but relaxing as it should be. Caught up on a lot of sleep and promptly lost it again when I started getting calls from my friends. That’s alright though, who needs sleep?

My dad and I ended up splitting the cost of a pressure washer. I was telling him about how there wasn’t enough power from the garden hose attachment I bought and he got all excited at the prospect of having a pressure washer. (He can wash the cars! And the siding!) He got the better deal considering I’m not in Tulsa most of the time. Anyway, it’s working out a lot better than the garden hose. The Ulano Stencil Remover #4 is still awful though. It cleared some of the emulsion from the screen in my previous post, but I’m getting the same problem I was last Spring at MICA. It looks clean, but there’s still a residue of emulsion that shows up when printing.

I’ve got an order of EasiSolv 5 on the way to my house (thanks Kyle for being so quick with your response!). I picked up some Speedball Speed Clean from the art store to clear the screens that Jason and Tristan brought. I figured it would work because their screens had been coated with Speedball emulsion. We started trying to clear the screens by hand in the bathroom (it was midnight, I’m sure my parents and neighbors would not appreciate the pressure washer being on) and that didn’t work so well. Oddly enough, it works really well with the pressure washer. It even cleared the Ulano emulsion from a new(er) screen that I coated. Now I know, if I’m in a bind and I need some stencil remover, I can just buy some of this Speedball stuff from the store.

This is what Jason’s screen looked like last night after much vigorous scrubbing. It looks much much cleaner now.

Jason and Tristan will be over later tonight, so there’s hopefully going to some printing in the future (!!!!).