Blacklight Rebellion

"Dirty" Donny Gillies grew up in Ottawa, Canada skating, drawing and listening to Punk and Metal. He cut his artist teeth razor blade sharp designing album covers and posters for underground rock's best. These days Donny resides in San Francisco California as a full time artist. There really isn't anything Donny hasn't painted on or done work for. Deemed to be one of the most influential artists to invade the pop culture scenes of the punk, rock n roll and heavy metal underground, Dirty Donny has been spreading his art across all mediums for decades; ranging from Toys and decks to paintings, hot rods and record cover art for companies like Vans, Fender and Dunlop. You can bet while your reading this Donny is painting on something somewhere. Screen printing is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil. The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink or other printable materials which can be pressed through the mesh as a sharp-edged image onto a substrate. A roller or squeegee is moved across the screen stencil, forcing or pumping ink past the threads of the woven mesh in the open areas. Screen printing is also a stencil method of print making in which a design is imposed on a screen of silk or other fine mesh, with blank areas coated with an impermeable substance, and ink is forced through the mesh onto the printing surface. It is also known as silkscreen, seriography, and serigraph.