Had a fun day yesterday and played with simple lino prints for half a day - its very addictive and had to stop or I would have run out of paper.
I had been itching to play with lino printing for a some time. A little while ago I bought some heavy rubber (sort of looks and feels like those white erasers by Stabilo) which is so easy to carve from Lyn Britten at Batik Eotoro and the tools to carve it with. You can carve on both sides of these blocks so I felt I got really good value for my dollar. And then I came home put them in a safe place and couldn't find them for a month! I used student quality acrylic paint for coloured stamps and something called block printing colour for the black. The latter was definitely a better quality to use but I like to effects that the acrylic gave. Some of the paper I used was coloured with watercolour wash.
Quite some time ago Stitchers Plus had a design exercise where we made continuous patterns from a single drawing - the trick being to make sure that all the lines at the edge of the drawing would meet when you flipped the pattern around. I used this technique and had such fun and came out with a couple of reasonable prints and a bit of inspiration for embroidery too :-
Looking for something else to stamp I then added the stamp to a collage I had been working on - I had painted, pasted and stamped onto a canvas tile which had remained unfinished and was waiting for that something else to bring it to completion. I think the stamps do that.
Cheers all
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