We had a grade 8 student in this week working on some prints to include in her application portfolio for the WCCA programme at Walkerville Collegiate. She learned how to make screenprint separations, how to cut a lino block, and how to print both, and created a lovely set of three-colour prints with two layers of screenprint and one layer of block print.
Letterpress and block printed holiday cards. These, along with a few more colours, are now available in our shop!
Some gorgeous student prints from this week’s class.
Here’s a first proof of a little linocut we’ve been working on this week:
Here’s a student print in progress from tonight’s class. We’ll have the final prints to show you next week!
We had another fun session of our most popular class last night. I’m always amazed at what people come up with, combining our wood and lino blocks into designs we would never think of. Here are some action shots:
And some of our finished fabrics!
Michelle came in yesterday and pulled a first proof from her lino block. She’s going to clear out some of the chatter in the sky and make it more controlled, and make a few other minor changes, but it’s looking good so far!
Our new Rat King broadsides are printed!
Here’s an oblique shot of the precarious lockup, achieved with hope and luck and many tiny pieces of rolled up paper and mat board:
We printed some on white and some on orange:
Broadsides are 11×17″, printed on French Paper (colours: Sweet Tooth and Orange Fizz). You can get them by dropping by the studio, or wait a few days until we get them listed in the Levigator Press Etsy shop!
Monica came by today to do some cutting and pull some proofs from her lino block in progress. Her image is fairly minimal linework with some nice chatter marks for texture, and she’s planning to hand colour the resulting prints.
We had so much fun in our Block Print on Fabric class last night. A group of four friends took the class together and that always makes it a party atmosphere! Here are a few action shots from the printing session; we’ll show you the finished fabrics once they’re dry enough to lay out for photos.
