Printmaker
Wednesday, 19 February 2020 Background In late 2019, my wife and I visited our friends Rosey and Steve James who run a fantastic B&B in Devon. Steve and I were team mates when we played for Oxted RUFC way back in the 1980s. In the course of our visit, Steve showed me a copy of…
Introduction As I was driving home one evening in mid-June just after 9 p.m., the moorland above Carleton-in-Craven opened-up to reveal a magnificent sunset. In the distance, I could see Ingleborough silhouetted against the yellow sky. Just had to stop and take some photographs! I selected one of the photos as my reference image and…
Introduction Japanese woodblock, known as mokuhanga, is the traditional Japanese hand-printing process that evolved from Chinese and Korean precedents during the Edo period (1603 to 1867). Mokuhanga is a water-based woodblock method and I was taught this by Laura Boswell in April 2018 using water-colour inks. The first print that I made using this method…
Laura Boswell is a very talented printmaker who specialises in linocut and Japanese woodblock printing (see Note 1 below). In April 2018, I attended one of Laura’s Japanese Watercolour Woodblock courses and enjoyed it so much that I decided to add mokuhanga to my other relief and intaglio printmaking techniques. In 2011, Laura published a linocut…
Up until now, I have always located my etching press on a static base such as an old dining table or a heavy chest of drawers. This had made it very difficult to move the press and its support. I recently decided to buy one of Hawthorn Printmaker Supplies’ press stands. I chose the press stand…
Our friends, Rosey and Steve James, moved to Stoodleigh in May 2011 and since then have transformed their property into a magnificent home and successful bed & breakfast business. In one of their bedrooms, the Hayloft, there is a window blind with a repeating pattern of a squirrel and a bird with three chicks on…
To date, I have concentrated on linocut (relief printing) and etching & aquatint (intaglio). I wanted to broaden my knowledge of the other relief printing techniques to see what would be of interest. With this in mind, I have just spent the last twelve months learning about these. For this I have to thank Susan…
This post is the last in a series of different relief printmaking techniques that I have tried over the last twelve months. I spent a year on this for two principal reasons – firstly to experience the technique and secondly to decide what I would continue to use. Wood engraving was the last technique described…
Introduction This module covered the penultimate method in Susan Yeates’ online “Introduction to Printmaking” course. The module considered three methods of screen printing: First method using simple stencils created using any flat material or paper that will block the ink including fabric, ribbon, leaves, string and paper. Second method using hand-cut stencils prepared from acetate…
Introduction Drypoint is more of an intaglio technique where the ink is held within the marks rather than on the surface of the block (as with relief printmaking). In addition intaglio printing also includes etching, engraving, mezzotint and aquatint and generally involves the use of a metal (e.g. copper, aluminium or steel) plate that is…
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