Author: berrydaines

Printmaker

Yr Atom

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In December 2016, the Welsh Art Therapists group got together for a day out in Carmarthen. They booked a room to make some lino prints at Yr Atom, a Welsh cultural centre which is based at the site of the Carmarthen Journal.

Printing in a newspaper office should be easy, you’d think. Unfortunately the room has been set out for vocal meetings, not for art making. We got around the lack of sink by putting some bowls of water ready for cleaning lino and rollers.

A nice quiet hour of transferring drawings to lino then cutting.

Then some printing. Was that Art Therapy? No.

Sharpening up…

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First, a drawing, which is traced then transferred (using a very hard pencil, draw over the lines to press carbon paper marks) in reverse onto a piece of lino.


Cut the lightest areas first…


Ink it up


Print, then hang up to dry



Cut away the areas to be mid-coloured…


Ink up the block, place the print in exactly the right position and press…


Wonder why you waste so much effort on this nonsense. Realise that print looked better before the second layer of ink was added. 


Some of them might be OK, with a bit of editing.