See? I can be an organized printmaker, if need be!
Organized!
Another proof
Here’s another similar card with Latvian roots that’s turning into some new cards:
New prints!
Here’s a proof of a new Latvian card I’m working on — I’ve cleaned it up a bit since this picture was taken and have started printing cards for Dziesmu Svetki like this:
Day 25 — Printing cards!
Experimenting with assorted color combos and a new place for my little press:
Day 15 — lino cut!
Sketching in lino, Part I
A couple of art nights ago I let myself just “sketch” in lino…. apparently I had bugs on the mind since both prints turned out to feature bugs. Here’s the smaller of the two:
I can’t figure out a consistent way to cut nice-looking circles in lino. I think I want to make friends with a dermatologist so I can appropriate one (or more) of those sharp little tools that punch out perfect circles from skin that’s going to be biopsied. I bet those would work on lino.
New lino project!
I have been experimenting with printing on different surfaces. At the moment, the favorite result is the one where I print on book paper and turn it in to a card:
I am hoping to get some old Latvian books to use for this in the future, since I think printing these on Latvian text (instead of English) would just be much neater – eh?
Late March printing in my kitchen
New toy!!@!
Merry Christmas to meeeeee….
(This is going to take some practice and some getting used to —– my first 10 attempted prints were……inconsistent, to say the least……)
Small Fish Prints
So a while back I ordered a different kind of linoleum composite to try out for printmaking and I’m sad to say that I don’t really like it all that much. It’s harder to cut than the stuff I was using before (though still not as hard as true battleship linoleum) and it’s more likely to curl it’s edges under which makes printing hard. I’m currently drying a couple blocks under a heavy weight to see if I maybe can press the curve out, but I’m not exactly holding my breath. It also seems more sensitive to ink consistency than the stuff I was using before. I was trying out a new ink that turned out to be WAY waterier than I’m used to, and that stuff printed even more poorly than the ones in this picture. hmmmm. I will still figure out a way to use them up and work with them. I hope.