TIM -How to effectitively coat a screen with emulsion

To start off a print, you need scabby clothes or a piny, light sensitive emulsion, a scooper, a screen, newspaper and a room that lets in no light.

 First of all put the newspaper on the surface you are using, in case emulsion leaks or spills and stains the surface.  Make sure you are wearing your scabby clothes before using the emulsion. Get your emulsion and put it in the dent in the scooper, making sure it even all along the scooper.

Get your screen into place, either using some wood to hold it up, or squat on the floor holding it in front of you, and place the scooper at the bottom of the screen, tilting the emulsion onto the screen. Wait until there is a good amount of emulsion at the bottom of the scooper touching the screen before you spread it across the screen.

When there is an even amount, at an even pace, not too quick but not slowly, making sure the scooper is touching the screen, pull the scooper up and spread it across the screen till it reaches the top before gently pulling the scooper away from the screen so it doesn’t spill or create a thicker part of emulsion on the screen.

Put the scooper upright on the newspaper, so no emulsion leaks off the scooper, while you hold your screen upright and take it into the dark room. Depending on if there is one side that has thicker emulsion, make sure that side is at the bottom, so when it dries it doesn’t go over the screen and create lumps. Make sure the dark room is shut, so no light is getting in so the screen doesn't "bake", and clean up all the equipment you've used.