print giveaway

No more printmaking course for me - four weeks went by very quickly. Luckily I have a small selection of prints to show for myself and I've now become a member at the studio so can keep myself busy making more.

I thought I'd celebrate by holding a mini print giveaway! If you would like to enter please leave a comment on this post letting me know which of the above four prints you would like and I'll pick a winner out of a hat at the weekend.

Good luck!

printmaking

Here are the results from printing class number two.

I carved this jigsaw print in vinyl. As you can see I forgot to think about the fact that the print is the reverse of what is carved, so I have a back-to-front place setting. Maybe one for the left-handed folks out there?

I'm really happy with how this print turned out - I got to try a few different colour combinations and tried separating out the pieces of the jigsaw as well as printing them together.

This week I did a reduction print, which was semi-successful. I got a bit carried away with my first layer of carving so there wasn't much to work with in the end. A good learning curve though.

I've only got one lesson left as I'm skipping a week to hop over to Ireland, but I'm planning to play more with chine-collé in lesson number four as I really like both the simplicity and the outcome of adding paper shapes of colour. Très bon.

night school

Last week I began a short evening course in soft woodcut and vinyl printing and I'm really enjoying it. It's lovely to be able to do some hands-on making after a day of working in front of a computer.

The prints shown above are the mini test pieces I created last week - one in wood and one in vinyl. I feel like I should really embrace the natural feel and texture of the wood, but I found the vinyl so much easier to carve.

Tonight I ate shortbread and worked on a jigsaw print which I'm really pleased with - I especially enjoyed playing around with different colours and chine-collé effects. And next week I might try a reduction print - although I fear this may be a hard method to grasp.

Fingers crossed!

ps. Some of my daffodils are now saying hello.

she comes in colours everywhere

These are the results of my last screen printing class. It was a BIG rush trying to get all the colours printed in time...and some of them are a bit higgledy-piggledy but I think I like it like that.

Now I'm thinking of other courses I want to do. Not until October of course, once my MA is finished, but my top choice at the moment is pottery. I'd like to do something messy I think.

NEWSFLASH: It's national sandwich week! I hope you have all been consuming lots of bread based snacks. I have half a loaf of bread at home that needs eating today so I am going to eat many a sandwich for lunch (& a jam sandwich for pudding!).

It was also national limerick day yesterday. Someone wonderful wrote me some rhymes in time for my lunch break - it made my day.

And an advance warning...next Saturday is world turtle day...I'm not sure what you can do to mark such a special occasion but do get thinking now.

one more to go

This week will be my last screen printing lesson. The course has gone ever so quickly but I have managed to get quite a few things done, & I'm finishing off a 6 colour print on Tuesday night - hope it turns out ok (I'm not always that accurate with my registration).

look after the pennies

i found one



a while back i posted about how i really wanted a piggybank for saving up my pennies (pounds) and the other day i found this little fellow in a charity shop. i love the flowery pattern on him, and how his nostrils look like commas. cute. hope i don't get too attached or i'll find it tricky to smash him when he gets full up.

i'm collecting 2 pound coins at the moment so if you have any spare then do send them in :-)

i realised today that i never posted a picture (or did i? correct me if I'm wrong) of these wonderful handcarved stamps i picked up at glastonbury festival:



i haven't got round to using them for much yet but I'm sure they'll come in handy (they are so nice!)

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at the weekend

i did some monoprints


















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