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Welcome and have a look at my work for Distant Stitch - Creative Sketchbooks, Module 6, with tutor Lizzy Lewis

In this module I will make a free-standing book on a theme chosen by me - Close to my heart.

Samstag, 19. Juli 2014

Chapter 4: Printed lines


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My printing tools on the left: half a clothes peg, eraser, credit card, peanut, cork, a folded piece of cardboard, wedge, the broad end of a fingerfood stick.

From my DIY toolbox on the right: nut, a piece of wire connector, a piece of plastic with interesting holes, screw, peg, metal hook.

The wooden tools worked well with watery paints like ink and acrylics. Metal worked well with fat paints like oil and bought stamp pads. Plastic was good with both kinds of paint.

My stamp pads have been around for some time, so the colours were already a bit dry. I bought a new one in nice red tones, but I had to press very hard to get a good mark. I made two stamp pads and tried ink, acrylics, silk paint and oil paints. As I went on with the activities I used mostly ink, which is a bit watery but makes strong marks.

 

3.4.1

 

1. Rows of parallel lines

 

07 rolled piece of cardboard, bought stamp pad
08 wedge, bought stamp pad
16 eraser with oil paint
25 piece of plastic, ink

39 piece of plastic, ink

 

2. Rows with parallel curves

 

09 rolled piece of cardboard, ink and acrylics
26 piece of plastic, ink
37 eraser, long side, ink
40 piece of plastic, ink

 

3. Overlapping shapes

 

10 clothes peg, ink and acrylics
15 wire connector, ink and acrylics

I like these lacy patterns.
29 piece of plastic, ink

30 as above

 

4. More overprinting

 

14 wire connector, ink and acrylics

32 clothes peg, ink

41 piece of plastic, ink

38 eraser, ink

In this example I like the contrast of stronger and weaker marks, it creates depth.

 

3.4.2  Creating lines with dots

 

11 A 5,  wooden peg, oil paint

I used the peg in all the dot examples.
18 oil paint
19 oil paint
20 oil paint
33 ink

I like the impression of movement created by the wavy lines and the graded tone of the marks.


The idea for the arrangement came from this photograph, the surface of a canal after a duck had crossed.
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The inks dripped on the stamp pad(primary colours) mixed in several ways.
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The print of the inked stamp pad in the middle was the start of the dotted line.