And I missed a post yesterday. Cannot say why. Anyway, this is what I did: Carved a bigger piece of lino. This is one inch. My usual size is 2 cm. I really like printing with printing ink because the colors are bright and strong. I also very much like carving soft linoleum. So much
Someone suggested yesterday on IG that glueing my lino to a cork may help ease the printing, so that is what I did today. And it worked. I do plan a bigger carve for tomorrow though. We went for a walk in city park today. The weather is very nice lately, cold but sunny and
Here’s another try at lino carving and printing. Lesson learned: I need to carve bigger pieces because small ones are almost impossible to print. I love how black this ink is. I could never achieve this blackness with stamping ink.
Today I received my order of art supplies. I have some new lino to try, some new carving tools and printing ink. Here’s the first attempt at printing with real printing paint. Of course I had to get a neon magenta 😊. Printing was not easy because my brayer is dirty and my two new
One way to help me keep up with blog posts is writing a reminder. I can still forget to look at my list though, but I am hopeful 😊. I carved another stamp today. I could not decide on the design, which is visible on the photo. 😂 We went for a short walk. It