Lithographs: Making tiny wallpaper

Mini musuem with mini wallpaper!!

The relief printing technique is basically making stamps. 

The ink goes on top of the incision instead of wiping ink into the incisions. 

Last year was the first year I experimented with linocuts. In my art room at Westwood View, I didn't know exactly what I had in the supply closet but I figured it out. I ended up making a few awesome projects with my students that I hadn't tried myself. I never took printmaking in my undergrad butbindid make some AMAZING collograph plates at a class in the Nelson Atkins in a middle school art class. I remembet it because it was one of the coolest mediums I had worked with. I could draw with shapes. I love that.

A lot of printmaking is really tedious in my mind but I'm really calling the kettle black if you look at some of my paintings. To each their own and all that.

I'm working on my example project for my TLP and my blog post for class at the same time. Yess!

In my Mini Mucha, my Art Nouveau museum diorama, I decided to make TINY WALLPAPER!!
By using a carved pink eraser stamp on painted cardstock, I used gold ink to print my design.

First, I cut up my eraser into squares so it would be even. And, I would have an extra if I messed up. PRO TIP: You can cut both sides of the linoplate or pink eraser. You dont have to cut super deep.
I drew my design just as my audiobook was getting really interesting! I highly recommend The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix. PRO TIP: Carve away from your Body. 
I forgot to get a pic of the stamp without ink. 
I used it as a regular stamp by stamping it in the ink but the ink got into the insicions. It worked much better when I rolled the brayer over it instead.
Practice stamping it on paper. You need to know how many times you can stamp before needing to re-ink. You need to feel confident in your motif. I tried a few before I committed. 
I like the imperfection of the ink intensity. 
Ta dahh!!!
Wallpaper for the Mucha museum!! 

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