Block Printing

The next stage of my class, after all the colour and texture work, was to make block prints from the theme we've been exploring: birds.

I really enjoyed making the interpretations from the pictures I'd collected. It made me feel like an artist!

Bird theme as inspiration - from my sketchbook.

Detail of the bird drawings - they look rather stitch-like. I love them!

More from my sketchbook

The block prints made from foam with the results.

Detail of the block prints

The results from my sketchbook.

Even if we didn't have that long to make work in class I thought block printing was great fun. I loved the painterly effect - I simply painted the ink on instead of pressing the ink from a plate - and essentially block printing gives you freedom to mark anywhere on your background. You can choose to be regular or random. There's something pleasingly quirky about it. I'm definitely going to be doing more of this. I may even dig out my lino.

Can anyone recommend artists who work with block printing that I ought to know about?

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This post is part of a series: see Part I -- this is Part II -- see Part III
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