Bookbinding is a beautiful process. I did these small notebooks and albums using my handprinted paper.
What I like about them is that every single piece is unique in its print and colour combination.
Category: printmaking
Work in Progress
A friend of mine is a textile designer and I love to print.
So it was just a matter of time to start printing on fabric. This is going to be our first collaborative piece of work, a beach mat.
We will also take part in this craft fair in April which I´m really looking forward to.
Some New Prints…
I haven’t done any printmaking for a while but now I want to start again with linocuts and woodcuts. I would like to do more of these…
Maritime Drawings and Prints
I want to take part in this year’s Hahnemühle drawing competition, whose topic is “Maritime”.
I’ve done some prints and drawings so far but I guess I will do some more for my competition entry…
Happy Easter!
Easter is coming up and so is a small DIY Easter market at a friend’s house.
I like these Easter-themed gift tags and textile prints.
Printing on Fabric
Printing again… This time on fabric!
What I did here was to glue a linoleum plate on a piece of wood and use it like a normal stamp.
I also tried cutting into the woodplate directly but that was pretty hard…
Kitchen Lithography
I am interested in every printmaking technique but lithography always seemed to be the most difficult and complex.
Well, then I found this book about kitchen lithography, which explains how to use the principle of lithography with materials you can find in your kitchen.
I have tried it several times. First it didn’t work out at all. Then I experimented a bit with the material and after I while it finally worked and a picture appeared on the aluminium foil.
The basic principle behind lithography is that water and oil don’t mix.
Normally you draw on a lithography stone but with kitchen litho you use aluminium foil as a printing plate. You can use normal lithography ink or chalk for drawing.
The next step is to rub gum arabic on the foil. I found out that this step is essential to create a drawing in the end.
For etching you use simple coke. You rinse the plate with the coke for some minutes and stop the etching process with water afterwards. After removing the litho ink with vegetable oil, your plate is ready for printing.
For printing I used normal oil colour.
Drypoint Printing
I haven’t been able to do intaglio printing since I left university because I didn’t have a printing press at home. Well, those days are over now!
I got myself a very small printing press which works quite well, at least for small size prints. So these are my first attempts at intaglio printing using acrylic glass as printing plates and washable printing colour. I find this technique so intriguing…
