#hand printing

[pastelrune]

Spent the day carving the last (for now) stamps, and starting to print some canvas patches for my upcoming market.

It's a trial and error process, like everything, and I remembered some tips partway through the process. I may have to go back and touch up a couple stamps, but for now I like how they're turning out.

Tomorrow will hopefully include some more market prep! Less than two weeks to go!

[ciriceart]

Carnivorous Lamb

6 x 9 inch intaglio etching with chine-collé using found paper.

I did something like 8 or 9 prints using this plate, some of which I still have, some of which are on display, and some of which I've given away. I love the intaglio printing process a lot, but the physicality of it (filing down plate edges, sanding, prepping the surface, so on) has been difficult for me lately.

I wish I had taken more process pictures, but all I've got on hand anymore is this one of the plate with ground applied and etched into. The etched plate was then dipped in acid to eat away at the bare areas, which then creates lines when ink is applied. Fun stuff.

[prismfloor]

Phase 1 is complete. Next, I print a ton of Saltys and hide them around campus. There's gotta be at least one sick freak around here who knows @saltydkdan

I've been binging their videos like crazy. Life has been a mess, but the old friendlockes and general streams keep me going. Had to make a stamp of my favorite white boy*

[forestsap]

Hand-Carved and printed Linoleum block print! Celebrate indulgence with this original 6"x4" print on cardstock 😊

you boy. buy my prints

[outloudart]

i did a few test pulls of the jegulus print but i think i’m going to do a second carve because i can see a few things i want to change and a few places i want to use different tools (‘:

(i will obviously still use this one and not be wasteful, but it was a practice for some new tools so i do want to improve it)

here’s the sketch again for reference

[jda-usa]

adonis bosso by me for ‘rare as the feathers on my dash from a phoenix’

[turnbullrarebooks]

You had one job ...

In late 1587, Christopher Barker (ca. 1529-1599) - printer to Queen Elizabeth I - turned over the day-to-day operation of his business to his deputies George Bishop and Ralph Newbery and retired to his country estate.

The following year the firm published an edition of the Bible. It appears, however, that quality control lapsed a little. These images of the New Testament title-page show that two of the blocks in the border were placed upside down - an act that may have left Barker wondering if he made the right decision were he informed of the error.

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The Holy Bible ... Imprinted at London: by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1588, Alexander Turnbull Library, qREng BIBLE 1588.

[phoebemiraculus-blog]

These four 6x8″ lino cuts were done as a personal exploration of a print medium. I carved and printed them at home, which was certainly a different experience from working in a print studio. I really liked using the water-based ink, which I could clean in my kitchen sink and could get on my clothes without fear of staining. There is something about non-toxic, water-based media that I really love. Maybe because it seems safe? It certainly is safer than what we use in a print studio. The Blick brand ink I used was horrendous, as you can see, so I’m interested in using more liquid inks, and maybe even watercolors like are used in some types of Japanese printmaking. 

I wanted to do these prints, which are based off of natural forms, because I feel so caught up in being a person existing in a body. For the past four years, I have dealt with some minor but frustrating health problems that affect what I can do in my daily life. And with the current healthcare debate, I wonder if these health problems will be more of a financial handicap than a physical one in the future. So I feel like moving outside of my body and looking at things that take a long time to form, and have a staying power and an expectancy that lasts longer than the one hundred or so years I have to live. 

The first piece, my favorite of the four, is based off of the water in rivers. I find currents interesting because you can feel them, but can only see them in a drawing or map.  The second piece is based off of tree trunks or cross-sections, which I like because trees are the longest-living organisms on Earth. The events of my life, which seem so monumental to me, have an impact on so few trees. With climate change, the twenty years I’ve been alive have had more of an impact on trees than most other twenty-year piers in history, but trees still have an ability to live and survive beyond world-changing events.  The third piece is based off of the movement of smoke in the air, which, like a map of water currents, reveals the movements of a gas we can’t see.  The fourth piece is based off of grass roots and also the roots of teeth. Teeth fascinate me because they require so much upkeep in life, but are so hard to destroy after death. Like trees, they have amazing staying power.