I really enjoy how you show your process of thinking and reacting until you produce something you like. It is very instructive. Thank you for all the inspiration and advice.
That's the point isn't it. To experiment and play which is what I also do constantly. Ideas that fail and ideas that succeed. It doesn't matter. You learn from each episode. Great technique. I love it and will certainly give this a go. Would look great trying this filing out on fruit skin and then gel printed. Anything goes....right. Nice one. Bx
Very interesting seeing you experiment and adapt until you achieve the result you're after. I've done texture plates using embossed wallpaper to use on the gel plate but you've inspired me to try masking tape next.
Hi Denise. That sound interesting, are you making collages of embossed paper and pressing them on the plate to lift paint?? I'm quite new to gel plate printing so love to hear what people get up to with it!
@@yeatesmakes Yes, usually a basic landscape, hills etc from the different textured wallpapers. Mostly I use it by pressing it onto an inked up gel plate then pulling a print. You can also roll paint directly onto the wallpaper, 'stamp' the image onto the plate and then either pull immediately or let it dry completely and do a pick up print. The texture is different depending on which way you do it, ie positive or negative.
Thank you for sharing your work and process. I am an absolute beginner with no training. I am generally mucking about (and mostly mucking up) so it is great to see someone who values experimentation. That said, I note that your sketches are exquisite so perhaps I should literally go back to the drawing board! One question: what are you using as the sheet for your masking tape layer? Many thanks again. Tom
I was impressed by how well you were able to register the lino image on top of the masking tape layer. Did you just eyeball this or did you have a system that allowed you to line the second layer up?
Thank you, once again, for encouraging exploring! What linoleum product do you use? I stopped using linoleum blocks years ago because it was so hard on my finger joints and hands. And a friend had given me some rubber sheets by Mars Staedtler, which were pretty awesome. I used them to carve and print with for years. But then, to my devastation they stopped producing that product... Watching you work made me reconsider going back to lino. It seems the art stores I have here, in the U.S., have soft and hard lino now? I'm afraid the soft stuff will crumble (as was my experience with inferior carving rubber). So, I'd like to know what you use. Thanks very much for your time in reading all of this!
The soft cut stuff is great for relieving fingers - cuts like butter! Esdee to it, JAS, Artway... The only drawback is that it is the same colour all the way through which I find tricky to keep track of where I've carved. A quick coat of thinned acrylic paint solves this...
I love how you explain a linocut technique and just casually drop some crazy drawing skills on us as an intro. 😀
Love! Using the tools for mark making. Brilliant
I need to return to this, it was loads of fun, especially with the portrait of Howlin Wolf I demonstrated in one of the other videos : )
The maskingtape/acetate technique for 'no block' relief printing is genius.
I really enjoy how you show your process of thinking and reacting until you produce something you like. It is very instructive. Thank you for all the inspiration and advice.
Fascinating!
So they have these handheld art drills with a wide variety of rasp bits - have you ever tried those? Dremel makes a popular one
I have tried, but mainly for polishing, carving woods, metals etc. Never tried on lino...
That's the point isn't it. To experiment and play which is what I also do constantly. Ideas that fail and ideas that succeed. It doesn't matter. You learn from each episode. Great technique. I love it and will certainly give this a go. Would look great trying this filing out on fruit skin and then gel printed. Anything goes....right. Nice one. Bx
: ) try, evaluate, learn, try again and so on!!!!
Just found your channel and really enjoying it. The masking tape method is new to me and really interesting. Tfs
Glad to hear it! Masking tape method is really rewarding... has a whole aesthetic of its own. I'll be posting more making tape stuff soon!
Very interesting seeing you experiment and adapt until you achieve the result you're after. I've done texture plates using embossed wallpaper to use on the gel plate but you've inspired me to try masking tape next.
Hi Denise. That sound interesting, are you making collages of embossed paper and pressing them on the plate to lift paint?? I'm quite new to gel plate printing so love to hear what people get up to with it!
@@yeatesmakes Yes, usually a basic landscape, hills etc from the different textured wallpapers. Mostly I use it by pressing it onto an inked up gel plate then pulling a print. You can also roll paint directly onto the wallpaper, 'stamp' the image onto the plate and then either pull immediately or let it dry completely and do a pick up print. The texture is different depending on which way you do it, ie positive or negative.
I like the sound of that Denise, will give it a try! Cheers for the idea!
Thank you for sharing your work and process. I am an absolute beginner with no training. I am generally mucking about (and mostly mucking up) so it is great to see someone who values experimentation. That said, I note that your sketches are exquisite so perhaps I should literally go back to the drawing board! One question: what are you using as the sheet for your masking tape layer? Many thanks again. Tom
Hi Tom, I used an old piece of polypropylene. Keep at it, no rules, just enjoy exploring!
I was impressed by how well you were able to register the lino image on top of the masking tape layer. Did you just eyeball this or did you have a system that allowed you to line the second layer up?
just my wonky eyeballs!!!!
Thank you, once again, for encouraging exploring! What linoleum product do you use? I stopped using linoleum blocks years ago because it was so hard on my finger joints and hands. And a friend had given me some rubber sheets by Mars Staedtler, which were pretty awesome. I used them to carve and print with for years. But then, to my devastation they stopped producing that product... Watching you work made me reconsider going back to lino. It seems the art stores I have here, in the U.S., have soft and hard lino now? I'm afraid the soft stuff will crumble (as was my experience with inferior carving rubber). So, I'd like to know what you use. Thanks very much for your time in reading all of this!
The soft cut stuff is great for relieving fingers - cuts like butter! Esdee to it, JAS, Artway... The only drawback is that it is the same colour all the way through which I find tricky to keep track of where I've carved. A quick coat of thinned acrylic paint solves this...
@@yeatesmakes Thanks ever so much for your speedy and thorough reply!!
Thank you, I really enjoy your videos
Do you think you could’ve gotten the same print with one cut Lino print?
Definitely, or a two layer reduction, the layer behind the reeds would have been tricky though out of the one plate.