D.C. trip and Kicking It Into High Gear
Now I know it’s a pandemic but, this weekend I went down to D.C. with my boyfriend to meet his sister and honestly for a breath of fresh air. I needed it and i used it as an opportunity to grow and see new futures for myself. I love that D.C. is a modern but very earthly grounded city. Lots of greenery and Boston. Major respect to everyone working out there and doing their best scootering along to their next gig. We visited the D.C. Alley Museum where he caught a couple fantastic shots of my outfit (his instagram) I was so awkward because I wanted to be respectful and keep my mask on and people would randomly walk by😅 We got lunch and some quick drinks around the corner and headed out to the next We got the chance to visit the National Museum of Women In the Arts.
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!