The start of a new series featuring framed works on wallpaper. All printed on my Takach printing press.
'A Pattern of Rural Domesticity' • wallpaper = about 8ft x 5ft, print within baroque frame is 8x10in • all woodcut images, with tiny etching in window beside chicken image
Printing the wallpaper, block by block:
The linoleum used to print the wallpaper (10in x 10in)
A closeup of the pattern.... Bones and offal (intestines, feet, etc), axes...the joys and horror of processing chickens I guess.
And the chicken (Gold Laced Wyandotte, cock), a reduction woodcut, with little etching for outdoor window scene:
7 color reduction woodcut, with etching for the little window scene
And finally, the colors used to print the chicken in the framed reduction print:
Reduction woodcut, 8in x 10in, with colors used at different stages
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Hello, I am a printmaker and book artist also using wallpaper themes. I have been using both lino and intaglio to print but have not been successful with a long paper substrate. Yours looks great. Would you please let me know what you used if you don’t mind giving it up…pretty please. It would help me out a lot.
Thanks
Hi Lise. Roll papers that work great for repeated lino printing are Masa, Mulberry, and Arches Cover. All done on press, they work great. Not printed/rubbed by hand. Stonehenge is awful. Often I paint the paper first with a colored wash–thinned down acrylics to provide a base color. Then print with oil-based ink on top of that. The right pressure helps, and holding the block firmly to the paper while rolling it slowly through the press helps. And then thinking positive thoughts helps a lot too, and holding your breath while the block goes through the roller ;-)
Hope this helps. -Sue
Thanks so much for sharing!!! I will let you know how it turns out for me when I get something done. I am experimenting with woodblock and etching so slightly different. Do you dampen your acrylic paper once you’ve washed it?
Lise
I don’t dampen paper when printing woodcuts. Is that what you mean?
Incredible, Sue!
Thanks so much for the kind words. I hope to have 4-6 done for the May show, so look for more in a few months!