Block Printing Trials
More behind the scenes on the making of the prints and detailed photos of the trial run. Check out the video for the process and how I created them!
Starting off the week pretty well with a late night upload! I made a video using my block print that I have been carving and playing with the last week or so. I was playing with different inks and I tried a couple techniques for getting the best prints and as you can see in the video, not all of them worked out too well.
First I tried old screen printing ink I had lying around from high school with was chunky and a little hard to work with especially because it’s more meant for fabric but I wanted to see how it would perform on paper. The result was kind of iffy. I dried just a but too quickly and got in a lot of the cracks of my stamp which made it print pretty poorly even though it was the best version of it.
The second go round I used acrylic which wasn’t working out either. Not only did it dry too fast but it had the additional texture too it that I originally hated but now I think I might use that that another project just to see how it looks or to play around with the little peaks coming off of it. I’m just glad I didn’t buy pricey in and I like the color blue so I’ll definitely get use out of it still.
The final try, I used ACTUAL block printing ink that I got from blick (go figure) and they came out much better! I still kinda messed up by dropping my brayer on the floor and in some cat hair but at least they printed pretty nice. Once I get a bit better at making them all look like a consistent set, I will add them to my shop along with a couple other new projects you should be seeing in the next few weeks so stay tuned!