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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
 | rolled piece of cardboard, bought stamp pad |
 | wedge, bought stamp pad |
 | eraser with oil paint |
 | piece of plastic, ink |
 | piece of plastic, ink |
2. Rows with parallel curves
 | rolled piece of cardboard, ink and acrylics |
 | piece of plastic, ink |
 | eraser, long side, ink |
 | piece of plastic, ink |
3. Overlapping shapes
 | clothes peg, ink and acrylics |
 | wire connector, ink and acrylics I like these lacy patterns. |
 | piece of plastic, ink |
 | as above |
4. More overprinting
 | wire connector, ink and acrylics |
 | clothes peg, ink |
 | piece of plastic, ink |
 | eraser, ink In this example I like the contrast of stronger and weaker marks, it creates depth. |
3.4.2 Creating lines with dots
 | A 5, wooden peg, oil paint I used the peg in all the dot examples. |
 | oil paint |
 | oil paint |
 | oil paint |
 | 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. |  |
 | The inks dripped on the stamp pad(primary colours) mixed in several ways. |
 | The print of the inked stamp pad in the middle was the start of the dotted line. |
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