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Printing

Relief printing, woodblocks, lino prints & hand made stamps.

Concertina Card with stamped leaf
10 Jan 2020

Exploring a design theme

Using lino printing to explore colour combinations.

Artist, Arts & Crafts, Artwork, Botanic, Design, design process, drawing board, Gum Leaves, ink, lino printing, painting process, sketchbook, watercolour, watercolour painting, watercolour paintng, watercolour techniques, watercolours, wip, work in progress
MIcaMicador dor paint & Merry Christmas woodblock print
5 Dec 2019

Watercolour disk sets by Micador

Living in Australia we sometimes feel that we are ‘missing out’ when it comes to art supplies. But its worth making sure you check out all of the Australian brands before going offshore, Art Spectrum , Derivan including Matisse and Langridge are some of my favourite artist quality paint makers. Mont Marte cover the other end of the market and … Read More

fabric medium, printing, speedball, textile medium, woodblock, woodblock printing
AustralianWoodblocks_TestPrints_12
14 Oct 2019

Fabric mediums and relief printing inks

I have been doing some woodblock printing experiments on natural fabrics, using relief printing inks with the addition of a textile medium in varying strengths to make it stand the test of a gentle hand wash.

fabric medium, printing, speedball, textile medium, woodblock, woodblock printing
PrintBook_6 ©KarenSmith
26 Jun 2019

Making print books

Saving test prints in a Japanese bound book I’ve recently been pulling a lot of test lino prints. Whilst OK, they are not good enough quality to sell or even give away, but still too pretty to chuck in the bin! So I decided to make small books from them. Making a book I collected all of my prints and … Read More

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