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The Curious Printmaker
United Kingdom
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 22 มี.ค. 2018
These videos are all about experimental printmaking. There is extra information about the techniques on my blog www.thecuriousprintmaker.co.uk.
mobile print poems
Here is a collection of mobiles with poems and prints; the idea is to let moving air currents change the relationships between words and images as they slowly spin.
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print from clingfilm
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discover how to make mono prints and transfer relief prints using clingfilm
Printmaking rollers from toner cartridges
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Find out how to get yourself some free printmaking rollers
printing a collagraph
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This is an old video that I just re-discovered. it shows (quite quickly) me preparing the paper, loading the roller and inking the plate as well as printing the plate on the etching press. Many thanks to Way-en from China for filming it, editing and everything else!
Make an explosion book to display your prints
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This video is about Make an explosion book to display your prints
spinning paper-shell mobile
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See one of my paper-shell mobiles spinning in the breeze. These will be available in the shop on www.thecuriousprintmaker.co.uk in early December 2020.
the best glue for chine collee
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This video is for printmakers struggling with glue for Chine Collee. Here is the easiest method I have found of glueing fine papers to heavier printmaking paper. Say goodbye to sticky fingers, crumpled paper and glue splodges on your prints!
plasticine printing blocks
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Discover how to create beautiful detailed printing blocks from plasticine. It is quick and simple and has lots of potential for experimentation with textures and pattern making. The technique we are using here involves pressing textures into the flat surface of soft plasticine to create unique printing blocks.
use up left over ink; make a mono print
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This video is about using up left over ink to make a mono print. I experiment with a big comb and some textured wallpaper and end up with an unexpected animation film!
Crisp Packet Prints
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This video is about making printing plates from recycled packaging
Absolutely brilliant. Thank you for the inspiration, I shall seek out some card and then start.
How do you make the plate..? Do u attach cardboard for texture.?
Lovely pattern Can I ask where you get the printing tool from?
It would have been nice if you had held the finished print up to the camera.
Wow! That looks cool.
We had the pleasure of watching a Kingfisher swoop, dive, and return triumphantly from a brief dunk in the cold waters of the North Fork of the Skagit River, near Darrington, with a little fish for his dinner! I'm looking forward to immortalizing the scene by creating this story book. So many memories can be shared this way! Brilliant! May God bless you!
I'm glad it gave you ideas - I do hope you enjoy making a book to capture the experience of seeing the kingfisher
Lovely. The way you have modified your work in each makes perfect sense. I don't usually branch out beyond traditional bindings with pages, but this format is so simple yet interesting and I like the way the viewer can take in all the images at once or focus more closely on each one simultaneously. Great instructional and very inspiring!
Thankyou for your nice comments, I am glad you enjoyed it
Love this and like so many comments below…I have bits and pieces of things I can’t bear to part with and have long wanted to make a coffee table book. This could also make a really thoughtful gift! This is fantastic! Your instructions are so concise! Thank you!
I am so glad you are inspired to have a go - hoping you will make many explosions!
Thank you for sharing! I love your prints. I am wondering what weight you would recommend for the folding paper?
You need something fairly stiff, but also foldable. I usually use about 200gsm cartridge paper, but I'd suggest doing a test book with any sort of paper you have to get a feel for what works. If you press each fold down by running something smooth and hard along it this will make the folds sharper. The wrong end of a craft knife will do for this, (remember to fold the blade away first though!)
@@thecuriousprintmaker-emily Thank you so much for your response. I will try that!
So happy I found you. I'll be looking for more! Thanks
Love it ❤
Great demo, clear instructions..Thankyou..now to eat some crisps,! 🙂
That's the bonus with this technique!
Excellent for beginners - easy and fun!
Easy and fun is a great place to start! hope you enjoy having a go with it
Wonderful! I'm going to have so much fun with this technique. Thanks for showing how to do it and variations.
Thanks - I am glad you are enjoying it. There are some more details on my blog if you need them
Wonderful - great communicator - thank you so much!
This is outrageous! I am collecting my jaw up from the floor. Thank you so much.
What a marvelous and wonderful idea!! I have piles of prints I hesitate to throw away, but serve no real purpose. This is something I must try! Thank you.
I hope you have fun making more explosion books - and see your old prints in a new light!
Thank you Emily! 🥰
Thanks Emily. I have saved lots of crisp packets!!
That sounds bad!
@@thecuriousprintmaker-emily most will packets will be recycled! I didn't eat them all!! I love the marks you made
@@charlottewilloughby-paul3904 I believe you - hope you have fun printing with them
I just subbed on your channel. I want to thank you for your generosity (and ingenuity!) in sharing this fun approach to printmaking of which I’m merely a beginner! As soon as I watch another of your wonderful videos, I’m going over to your website to learn more. Thank you so much for sharing. You have inspired me so much. There is always something beautiful to learn if we just stay curious! ❤
Glad you are enjoying it, you are right - stay curious!
I just love it, thank you so much!
Thanks Mary, I hope you have a go at making one!
I love this! I’m going to follow your instructions to make some. Thank you for your generosity!
Have fun with it - I myst warn you that it can become quite addictive though!
Absolutely love this idea. Thank you so much for sharing!
Thanks Lori - I hope you give it a go
fabulous !!! :D thank you
Exciting and inspirational! Thanks Jac Seery
I am glad you like it, thanks for the feedback
I love this! Thank you 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Thanks for your comment Bean - I hope you give it a go
A great follow-up to part 1! This is such a cool technique. I love repurposing stuff for art.
This is so cool! Thank you for recommending this in a reply to a previous comment I made. I have the identical thick yoga mat that I bought for cutting up and using as blocks for my DIY fun foam stamps (I don't do yoga!). I've got loads left, so this is a great idea. I've now cut 2 pieces 10 x 12 inches with a narrower remaining piece from the strip I cut off the mat, and have been using this to clean off my brayer while gel printing, and got quite a good pull-off print from that! I was thinking of getting another gel plate but now I don't think I need to! Thank you for sharing such a brilliant idea. Can't wait to try this with stencils, stamps and the rest.
I am glad it saved you the cost of a new gel plate - hope you have fun with it
You are a GENIUS!! This is absolutely stunning. You've even achieved the look of peacock feathers with this. Funnily enough, I was only talking to someone a couple of days ago about how I used to do a lot of woodgraining, and described the tool for making the knots. I never thought of using it in monoprinting!! Can't wait to dig it out and give it a try. I love thinking outside the box and using non-art materials and equipment to make art. Not only does it feed one's creativity and encourage one to see pattern and texture absolutely everywhere, but it can also be a great money saver. Art materials can be very expensive but you can pick up amazing texture makers very cheaply from DIY, kitchen and bathroom stores, florists, farmers' merchants etc. I have recently acquired a cheap flexible plastic bathmat and a collection of sink mats from Ebay and am creating great texture with them on my gel plate. I've also made a collection of foam stamps (self-adhesive foam on a cut up yoga mat) and can't wait to start making collagraph plates too. Sooo much to explore and so much fun, and not enough hours in the day!
Thanks for your comment - I agree discovering creative ways to use 'non art' materials is really liberating. Bath mats and sink mats are a great idea. if you have a look at my blog you will also find some posts on using a yoga mat instead of a gel plate.... I hope you find your graining tool and give it a new life!
Just stumbled across your blog and am absolutely loving what you are doing! New subscriber here. The card handles for the clingfilm is a genius idea as that stuff has a life of its own! I am fairly new to gel printing and am discovering a lot of different printing techniques. So much to explore, so much fun! Thank you.
That's just really, really interesting. A big thank you for this share.
Thanks David
Hi, that’s very interesting 😊. When it comes to selling artwork is it important to have a synopsis of each work? I currently work on Collographs and I have never sold artwork before but I am planning on entering an art fair someday soon. Do you have any tips? Thanks
Hi Nila - I'd say give people as much info as you can about your work, this helps them to engage with you and your practice
Your books are extraordinary! I don't have nice, discarded paper or prints to use, but will have to work on making some. Thanks so much!
Hi Louisa, I am glad you liked the video. You can always make an explosion book with photos, poems or anything else you fancy, if you don't have any prints!
this is absolute genius - I've really struggled with glues and ending up with tissue stuck to fingers and tools - this is such a clever solution.
Thanks Sue - hope it helps avoid sticky fingers!
Awesome! Thank you! :)
Love this! The results are fantastic and so much easier to not have to think about reverse effects.
Thanks Kim, that reversing is always tricky for text!
Thank you! Very understandable demo. Attractive print, too.
How generous you are with your ideas. Preparation for these videos must take considerable effort and you have an agreeable voice.
I have struggled with pencil and crayon scribblings to get rubbings when your brilliant roller method would do the job. No doubt you create really complex work when you want yet everyday people can draw on your simple methods and advance as they wish. Many thanks.
Thanks Chris - it is a lovely simple technique that always produces surprising results - not always what you expect. I hope you enjoy having a go
That is brilliant, thanks, offering nice thin paint and varied sharp marks, and the lettering solution is also hugely useful.
Love this idea, going to try printing on fabric 🤩
These are quite lovely and would make nice gifts depending on the price point
Thanks Ronne
How did you find poems that would work. I can’t stop watching it. Do you have a tutorial on it? Can you tell I am obsessed with its beautiful simplicity.
Thankyou for your comment - It was really trial and error, I made a lot of rough ones as you can't tell how it will work till you see it in action. I hadn't thought of doing a tutorial on it but that could be a good idea if enough people are interested.
So simply amazing.
Is wallpaper glue archival?
I think if you want to be really sure you could use methyl cellulose powdered glue, this is the type of glue conservators use. It is also the basis of wallpaper glue, which is more easily available but may have extra additives to it eg fungicide.
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What company made the tree stencil? Beautifully done!
The tree was made from a piece of textured wallpaper - ask for samples in your local diy store!
Score! Thanks!
What a wonderful low tech way to achieve beautiful results. Thank you so much for sharing.
I just love this thank you! It could even be a little photo album
Good idea - I guess there are loads of different ways you could adapt it...
This was an amazing video. Simple and clear and short. Thanks.
Hi Kris, thanks for your comment - I know printmakers want to spend all their time printmaking not watching TH-cam, so I try to keep things short!
I love this! Thank you!