Happy New Year!
I made a woodcut.
This is a greetings card, about 7″x5″.
It is from two woodblocks, one orange and one blue. Here is work in progress at East London Printmakers:
Orange block printed
Blue block printed on top
In the background you see the Albion press I used for printing. It is a wonderful cast-iron machine.
Albion press for relief printing
Albion press nameplate
As well as the greetings cards I tried an experiment with chine collé on Japanese paper.
And this was an out-take that I liked:
The inks made marvellous patterns on the glass when I was cleaning up:
Yellow and red ink, and cleaning fluid
Black and red ink, and water
Perhaps I could entitle that last one “Window into the unknown”?
Happy New Year 2019!
Jane Sketching 
Wow what a beautiful press and print!
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That’s very kind BlossomRevival22, thank you. The press is a wonderful machine, very tactile, very solid. It has a huge handle that you pull to bring a force to bear on the plate. It’s a physical process, good exercise! I imagine presses like these being used to produce posters: political, theatrical and retail. The press plate is about the right size (roughly A3). I’ve never made any work that big though.
I wish you a happy new year and hope you find much to delight you in 2019.
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Happy New Year!
I think the title ‘Window into the unknown’ is perfect. It’s amazing how those last two images simply ‘made themselves’.
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Hello GroundImpressions, thank you for your comment.
Yes, the pictures made by the ink on the glass are astonishing. They were changing before my eyes, like watching universes evolve in a sci-fi film. So I quickly grabbed the phone and took the photos. Then I had to wash the phone….!
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