My little fish one of my print finally in a frame.

Monoprinting

Last Saturday 28th July 2012, we had an excellent day at FDPW.  This was our third "monathon", and working alongside Aine Scannell, Steve Ratomski, Peter Kirley, and Bill Mc Kechnie  we had a lot of fun using stencils, solvents and textured fabrics to conduct layering and explore a range of technique that we might not have done otherwise.

Bill Mc Kechnie

 Texture imprinted onto translucent ink layer

Aine looking at the fantastic monoprints I made (ha ha)

Layer of ink mixed with extender to make more transparent

Then clingfilm was impressed before running that through the press

Peter Kirley mixing colours - he worked many many layers onto his prints

Steve Ratomski

Great photo of me (thanks Aine !!)

Tried out something I read in a book using parcel tape to mask areas out - can use as a starting point to develop into a finished piece.

Used some ready made paper letters which I rolled up in different colours and arranged these on a plate rolled up with pale green ink. 

RABBIT SAVE THE PLANET

This is a collaborative printmakink (installattion) project coordinated by Anita Jung (USA).

My contribution is this collagraph with hand coloring (watercolor), I decided to make this image with the idea that I developed, which encompasses the desire for wanting people to turn back from the industrial to a more ecological way of thinking, in that way we help to save the planet.

MAKE TOOLS FOR SMALL LINOCUTS

More information about this tool I found in " nettally "blog-

PORTRAIT IN LINO

FIRST PORTRAIT IN LINO

After some small linocuts that I did to practice in this technique in a piece of vinyl, I challenge my self to do the portrait of my son, I used different tools to make diffetent marks, I also use a hit pistol because the vinyl can melt very easy as you can see at to right top corner.

PAPER BOAT "FISHBOAT"

 " FISHBOAT"
 This piece was made to participed in the "Paper boat fundraiser for Mary-Ann's Cottage - Caithness Scotland UK"

Using a lino print plate through the intaglio inking process in one side and some hand colouring using Stabilo Carbothello ( water soluble) pastel pencils,other side a relief rolled collagraph on rice paper colouring with watercolor. Then all carefully fold it to make a boat.

LINOCUT IN VINYL

 RELIF  (LINOCUT) ON VINYL 

  ''MACKAREL''I used for this print a vinyl piece, it was very soft to cut in it and I print as relif and intaglio and in both techniques the result were beautiful. so I really enjoy to work with this material similar to lino but the effect in the prints are very good too the only thing is that scratches very easily.

STARTING DRYPOINT

THE DRYPOINT TECHNIQUE

I think I made the drypoint before I made the lino cuts. I used something called "drypoint card" although this technique is usually made using copper or aluminium and sometimes plastic called perspex.

LEARNING LINOCUT TECHNIQUE

PRINTMAKER JOURNEY LEARNING RELIF TECHNIQUE - LINOCUT

The place I went to to learn Printmaking is Fife Dunfermline Print Workshop. The main website does not seem to be working at the moment but there is a blog which is run for the members of FDPW.

 Here are just a few of the small lino cut plates I tried out in the beginning- I used lino that was hanging around the print workshop, also it's posible to cut on wood, vinil too in this technique.

Also here is a proof of the lino cut. I used tools that were available in the print workshop and ordinary paper. I wanted to get used to learning how to carve and how to use the albion press.