Great work workshoppers, here's more printing fun...

Big Print Day

Free printing activities for anyone, young or old, beginner or already printing...

at 1 Dean Street, BS3 on Sunday 29th Sept at 1pm

register here or phone Papervillage on 0117 9639452 if you want to come along - it's all free - mono printing, giant printing, leaf printing, printing with toys, messy printing, clean tidy printing, we'll print it all!

Photo taken by Makers

I also had a lovely time at Makers running a beginners lino printing course at the end of August -such a great group of workshoppers, who all got along really well and all produced great work, as prints and greetings cards.

I'll be back there on 1st of December to Print Christmas - printing cards, gift tags, wrapping paper, bunting, place cards etc using lino and rubber stamps and I'm sure we will have mince pies and mugs of tea (no alcohol whilst lino cutting, safety first, then festivities...) so sign up if you are free, it will be great fun.

coming soon...

I'm teaching a couple more lino printing workshops at the fantastic Papervillage soon...

'Beginners' and 'Improvers', both on April 1st.  These have been such good fun so if you are in the Bristol area and fancy a try, or have done it before and fancy a refresher get in touch with Papervillage and come along.  You could even be a beginner in the morning and an improver in the the afternoon!

I'm hoping that we will have some great multi-coloured prints by the end of the day, and it's such a good, versatile technique for home printing without lots of equipment too.  I am slightly biased and obsessed...

Just look at the concentration.  It's a serious business.

aren't people clever?

I taught a beginners lino printing course last weekend and thought I should show you some of the results.  Everyone was a true beginner and they really went for it, with only a few moments of 'blank page' nerves!

Above is a sheet printed with the test pieces of lino, for trying out tools and getting a feel for cutting before tackling the 'real' thing, but don't they all look great printed together.

Then everyone got stuck in and we all managed to have something printed by the end.  Hurrah.  No blood and no tears.

(In case you think I was being incredibly mean and giving the poor students super bumpy paper to print on, these photos are of the prints they made on the walls of the shop.  Yep, they'd printed all the paper, card and tissue and moved onto the walls....it was that kind of workshop)

I'll be running another of these courses at Paper Village in Bristol on 27th November if you are around. Might be useful for those moved to make their own cards etc for that looming day of the year!