Printmaking

Process for block printing onto lino My first attempts at laser-cutting a linoleum block of an original illustration last year didn’t go well. However after a lot of time spent (and test paper wasted :0) I’ve found a few things that improved the print process over 4 iterations: Linoleum size and treatment I tested on earlier different versions but finally bought 9"x12" linoleum. It’s hard to find this pre-mounted but it’s important that it’s mounted to a block and flattened so that it doesn’t curl, for a few obvious reasons (the laser has a focus field of < a few mm, and printing also would suffer if it wasn’t flat). ...

Trying to have a smoother pipeline where I can print posters out before an event, since more and more people are asking me about them. W. printed out a single inkjet version for the door so people would at least know the lineup (this is the first event that we didn’t release the lineup on social media, so I wanted to have it somewhere at the event physically for people to refer to). ...