Category: My prints
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How to combine oil-based printing inks and acrylic paints to create coloured collagraphs.
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How to develop an image through colour choices and what happens when plate direction goes astray.
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Take a successful print design and evolve it into a new and larger piece.
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Exploring image transfer, origami printing and stencilling.
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Sometimes prints don’t work out at first but it’s worth revisiting them in the future with a fresh eye.
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How to create variable ink coverage on an etched plate.
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How to successfully design and combine multiple etched images into unified finished prints
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Cutting lino to a specific shape reduces accidental inking, and adding stencils & paint can enhance a simple design.
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This article looks at layering and combining monoprints and monotypes to create both positive and negative imagery.
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A look at manually adding colour to an existing etched print.
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Exploring printing collagraphs on lightweight paper before folding into sculptural pieces.
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How to create collagraph plates and prints from paper pulp matrices.
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I first started casting paper pulp in 2017 (view my post here) and have continued from time to time since, but have never used the…
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There are many ways to seal a collagraph plate. Here I explore some options.
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Reworking and combining old printmaking plates can often produce surprising results.
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An exploration into the process of etching into aluminium to create a print plate with a range of tones.
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An exploration of the process of etching into aluminium to create prints with a range of tones.
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A short tutorial about starting out with woodblock printing. My recent experience provides some tips if you’re going to give it a go.
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How to develop a basic drawing into a complex zinc etching.
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Project: Kunsthaus (Art house), Rogner Bad Blumau, Austria In 2018 I holidayed in Japan and, whilst there, visited a wonderful structure remodeled by the architect…
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Project: Flights of Fancy This print swap is one I joined for the first time last year when the theme was ‘Hello Yellow’. Click here…
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Each year in December the members of our print group produce a pile of cut up prints to swap. These are usually prints that either…
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This project has developed to incorporate 3 distinct print methods to produce the imagery: solar plate etching, drypoint and linocut. Each was applied to Japanese…
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It was during a workshop with Brenda Tye in September 2017 that I first explored drypoint printing. We were given a piece of drypoint plastic…
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This zinc etching had numerous problems as it developed. I started with a couple of photographs taken at Lakes Entrance in Victoria last year. I…
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Following on from my previous solar plate prints I decided to create a relief linocut with the aim of masking and selectively inking specific areas…
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Late last year I visited MONA, the Museum of Old and New Art, in Tasmania. It was a fascinating experience and I was particularly enchanted…
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I’ve seen quite a bit in the media about fast fashion; sales volumes generated by the fashion & manufacturing sectors, poor quality products designed with…
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A while ago I created a very successful deeply etched solar plate image which was exhibited in April. Last month two friends and I were…
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Drypoint trials I’d like to create a concertina book with a whole array of handbags on display. Drypoint isn’t something I’ve done a lot of…
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Experimentation with paint stripper Note: Protective clothing, including gloves and face mask, should be worn when using toxic substances. Spurred on by a printmaking workshop…
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I’m a fan of jigsaws. I like the idea of pieces slotting together to create a whole, of components that complete a picture. I’ve several…
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Pages: Multi layer print and collage. Chine collé and drawing. Gelli plate peel print using dried plant material. Now to put the book together.
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Pages: Masked acrylic paint prints using clingfilm to create texture. Multi layer chine collé and paint. Gelli plate peel print using dried plant material. Masking…
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Pages: Chine collé and other collaged pieces of handmade paper were included here. The stencil was used as a mask to achieve this negative image…
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Pages: The carved lino was initially rolled with Stormy Grey oil-based ink. Prior to printing I decided I wasn’t going to like the colour against…
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Having cropped my chosen image (see previous blog post) I cut a piece of lino in reverse. To provide more options I also designed and…
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Earlier this year I posted some experimental collagraph plates (here and here) in anticipation of creating a larger finished work. In 2021 I worked on…
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In February I joined a printmaking postcard swap with the theme ‘Hello Yellow’ and posted the step-by-step process to create my entry. I mailed 11…
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I recently dropped several of my prints at the framers and they’re gradually coming back to me beautifully finished. What a difference a frame makes!…
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In January I made a plate which didn’t print terribly well, very dark and lacking detail. In February I reprinted it in a different colour…
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In September 2017 I attended a workshop where I created several collagraph and drypoint plates, supposedly designed to be printed together. The plates have been…