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Lost Soul A2 print on silk finish paper. It's tight.

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Work In Slapdash Magazine

 Few bits of my work have been printed in Slapdash Magazine. The layouts not fantastic for the best presentation of work. But it's still printed in a magazine. Better than not being printed right?

November 21st 2010: Jiggy Print

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Another print block. I tried to make this one a bit more finely detailed. It didn't work out so well but I kind of like how you can still see the main image in a splodgy way. Again, red works better than black for some reason.

November 20th 2010: Face Print

So I had a hand in the other day and mounted my work on some foam board, as did other people. So there's all these offcuts of foam board floating around in the studio, so I thought rather than throw it all in the bin I'd take some of the bigger pieces with me to make some print blocks.

Stage One: Draw your design on the print board.

Stage Two: Use a scalpel to remove all the areas that are white (or a sharp pencil if they are really small).

Stage Three: Apply ink and then print. This first one I turned the block upside down onto the paper and then put a book on it and pressed down. It didn't work so well.

This one I put the paper on top, then a book then pressed down. As you can see that worked a fair deal better. But not well enough. Keep trying.

This one is just paper on top and pushed down with a finger to make sure it gets all the sections printed. Worked much better. It might be the technique or just the fact that the inks now layered up thick and not soaking into the board, but either way.

Same technique as before but using deep red ink. The blacks come through from before but I really like the mix that its made. Printing. Done. This was really fun to make and I love the outcome. Definitely going to do a few more of these on the other offcuts i've got.

The board after printing. Looks pretty good on it's own.

More Letterpressss......

One of the first pieces I did on the idea of "sequence." Obviously it is the sequence of life.
I think the blue letters through the middle of it work quite well to illustrate the point, I'm not sure which one i prefer, I think that both work quite well in there own ways, I like both the straight and the angled blue text but I think the printing of life across the bottom of the page on this> one works particularly well.

This is apparently not a riot. I'm not too sure what this one was about really, just experimenting I guess.

Going, going, gone. I really like the use of the fading tone to represent the words.

Boundaries.
I wanted to experiment with different inks and different types of paper so i tried this one out. I think it worked fairly well but I think I should of used a white ink to print onto the black card to make it stand out more.

Letterpress

LettttterrrPRESSSS. I cut these out and stuck them in my book, then we got told not to. Oh well. These were some of my first experiments in this media. I think they've worked quite well, especially where the letters are properly printed as they really stand out.
More to follow.