printing

You can probably tell from the picture on Sunday’s post that I put the printing on hold and we visited the fabulous Japanese Maples at Westonbirt Arboretum on Saturday. Nature’s eye candy. I have made a page just for them-check out “Autumn glory” if you want to peek at the colours. It was such a perfect day-clearest blue sky setting off those tints fabulously.

But there has been printing.I made two collograph “plates” with a variety of dried materials and cardboard, varnished them and left them to dry overnight. This afternoon I printed collographs from the plates. Prtobably won’t be trying that again too soon-I enjoyed making the  plates but the time involved with the cutting and gluing and varnishing doesn’t justify the result at the moment. See below. Probably better with a press.

collograph

And then, a series of monoprints made on a glass plate (otherwise known as an old picture frame glass) with lino printing ink, applied with my lovely new roller. I drew directly into the ink with the wrong ends of brushes, tilers “combs”-the kind you spread tile adhesive or grouting with and a small plasterers trowel. I may not have all the right “artist” equipment, but I’m a very practical sort of girl! The prints are just made on computer printer paper, but I tried one (below) on water colour paper. I loved making these and will definitely do more with this. Makes me want to buy coloured inks now.