Flower pounding

Here's a new-to-me craft - flower pounding. You use a hammer to pound the color from plant materials into a special 'prepared for dyeing' fabric which can then be used as a wall hanging or other decorative purpose.

Inspired by Yeats

Art duo Wyllie O Hagan are inspired to create a relief print and this film by "The Wild Swans at Coole", a poem by William Butler Yeats.

Printing on fabric

This multi-colour printing process uses four wooden blocks to apply ink to a fabric. It's more like rubber stamping than woodblock printing in which the paper is taken to the woodblock.




3 April 2007

A 17-color Moku Hanga print

Graham Scholes demonstrates the making of a 17-colour print. See Grahams work at woodblockart.ca, where you can also find out about his courses and instructional DVD's.



For more on printmaking, check out Woodblock prints and printing.

Monotype print on fabric

Monotype prints can be made on fabric too:

Botanical monotypes

Mary Margaret Briggs uses plants in her monotype works.



She says little about the physical process, but if you watch closely you can see how the grass is sandwiched between the canvass and the inked plate.

Making a gelatin plate

Printing from a gelatin plate uses water based inks. Very little pressure is needed, so no press is needed. This video shows how to make the gelatin plate.

Subtractive monotypes

London based artist Chris Gollon making a monotype print using subtractive techniques.

Blow away monotype technique

Monotype print making demonstration

Today we have a demonstration of the whole process of making a monotype print:

Arthur Secunda on Monotype printmaking

Monotype prints by Artur Secunda

Monotype month

Happy New Year everyone.

This month I plan to concentrate solely on monotype print making. This print process has been described as the most painterly print making process. The image is created on a smooth non-absorbent surface, by both adding and removing ink as needed, then printing a single copy on to paper.

This introductory video is a trailer for an instructional video by Julia and Gail Ayres, and shows some of the interesting techniques that can be used in creating images.



Read more about monotypes in "The distinction between monotypes and monoprints and the process of creating these works on paper".

Stay tuned to Craft Videos for more on monotypes during the rest of the month.

Simple letterpress card making

Traditional printing techniques use woodblocks, linocuts or moveable type to transfer ink to the paper. This simple technique uses a glue gun to make the master.



Thanks to Laura of Prismera Design for making this video.

Building and using a simple letterpress

Here is a nice little video showing the construction and use of a simple letterpress.