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Could you guess from the last post that 6th grade was getting ready to do printmaking! I see one group of my kiddo's twice a week so this year we decided to tackle reduction printing with them. I was pretty nervous about what they could do but I should have known they would rock it. We started by watching this great video on YouTube. Then I demonstrated for them... showing them all three steps. Then we set up the printing stations (notice the color coded sign up sheets... the color is a huge help for kids who aren't really paying attention). I had yellow only on the first day. Yellow and red on the second, with the requirement that all yellow be printed. Then we had red and blue on the next day, with the requirement that all red be printed. (This year I had the kids print two prints on each full sheet of paper instead of having all the paper cut... wow, what a great idea and sanity saver) The students did a pretty good job with registration and printing in the right places. (except for this kiddo who never did get the same print... but I still love it) Here are some the finished ones... so awesome! I can't wait for everyone else to finish these. p.s. While I love these, I don't want to tackle it with all 300 students... these 75 were enough!
We are lucky to have relief printmaker Ian Phillips joining us in July for a two day Reduction Lino Workshop! We spoke to him about his incredible work: I am a relief printmaker based in Mid wales. I studied Illustration at Leicester and then worked as a Freelance Illustrator in London for a …
A final layer of dark green ink over the shadow areas completes the print. Six stage reduction linocut, 10 x 10cm.
This Starling bird portrait is a reduction linoleum print with 9 (!) colour layers. It’s the 4th of a series of bird portraits I’m working on currently. This one was definitely the most complex one…
MOEDERLOOS 2020 Multi block linocut Edition size: 1/20 Paper size 380x370mm This piece was created for The Printing Girls group exhibition. It consists a multi-block linocut in bold contrasting red and black. The print is taken from one of my hand drawn designs which are transferred and then carved into a sheet of Art Linoleum using specialist tools. The carved surface is then rolled with ink using a brayer (roller), printmaking paper is placed on top and it is hand pulled from a manual printing press. Given the unique process of this form of printmaking, each print is slightly different which adds to its charm. This piece aims to raise awareness of South Africa’s silent epidemic. Gender-based violence (GBV) and femicide continue to violently claim the lives of women in children on a daily basis. South Africa’s femicide rate is nearly 5 times higher than the global average of 2.6 per 100,000. This piece speaks of the desperation and sense of despondency felt by many womxn.
Original handmade reduction woodcut relief print. 10 layers total on thin hosho paper printed with hanco oil based inks. Limited edition run of 75 prints, signed and numbered by hand. Paper size approximately 9x11". The artist signature is close to the image, making it feasible to cut down the paper for framing if desired. Was designed for A4 paper originally, so the image scale works best with A4 although the paper size is a bit larger to give the option to frame differently. 'That Summer Feeling' is a print that features three Meyer lemons from my garden against a geometric background. It was printed dark to light for the most part, so the black layer was the first layer printed. All prints are hand printed by the artist and have slight variations that may differ very minutely from the listing photos. Within editions, there are slight variations, but to be within the edition it is as close as possible or else it is excluded.
3.5" x 5.5" linocut reduction edition of 21 on a variety of paper Akua Kolor ink Just felt like doing something graphic for a change, after spending all the time carving that detailed tree.
