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MaryAnnSingleton · 12/01/2009 16:18

as in techniques - what do you use ? did you take a course or learn at art school ? thanks !

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puppydetox · 12/01/2009 16:31

hello mas

i'm neither artist nor illustrator, can i join thread anyway? i've done bits of screenprinting, old school style cutting out paper stencils with a scalpel, that takes dedication but v little in way of equipment.

do you have a gocco? someone here does i think. they look like exceeding good fun (if you can get the bits) and are the kind of screen printing where you use a photographic process to make the screen, on a teeny scale.

there's all kinds of fun you can have making prints and transfers with polaroid film but sadly it all went out of production last year. i'm jealously guarding my remaining supplies.

on the photographic side what about sun prints? (cyanotypes) you can get the paper in small format from hawkin, and if you like playing with chemicals you can make up your own solution to use on any base you like.

then there's good old potato printing, or carving your own rubber stamps, lino prints etc, again none of them take much in the way of equipment.

i heard a good tip for a diy printing press - a tortilla press. big metal ones, not wooden. obv this tip was from the states where you can pick them up for peanuts, but i think you can get them here too, if you're that way inclined

there were a couple of books out recently - lotta prints is the one i remember, that looked like a fun intro/reminder for lots of basic processes (perhaps with fabric bias, don't quite recall).

lol, i forgot how much i love talking craft

MaryAnnSingleton · 12/01/2009 16:37

puppydetox - thanks - wow,that all sounds great fun...am just thinking about branching out a bit - I illustrate in pen,ink and liquid water colour inks but feel I'd like to try something else.Have done etching and lino cuts in the past - etching scared me ! (acid ! heating things up !! - mind you, that was many aeons ago at art school) Was thinking maybe I should find a course.

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puppydetox · 12/01/2009 16:57

printmaking is something i've been tempted by, but figured the last thing i need is yet another hobby with another load of equipment to stock up on. that said, i started a life drawing class in the autumn, thinking well at least i'd only need a pencil and some paper. needless to say i now have a whole bagful of conte crayons and charcoal and a million kinds of rubbers! [where's the rolleyes at self smiley when you need it]

MaryAnnSingleton · 12/01/2009 17:50

oh how lovely - life drawing is great - really people should draw from observation a lot more,it's the key to everything,imo ! I used to draw all the time, now I just don't.

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