Embrace the Tenebrae

PO!, aka Patricio Oliver, is an Argentinean graphic designer, illustrator, and teacher at Buenos Aires University. Possessed by the spirit of an 8 year-old Victorian child, PO! is the medium between this spectral lad and our world. Trapped in a universe of vampires, freaks, strange children, dark forests and monsters, all your childhood fears might manifest in the shape of his creations. 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.