{"id":726,"date":"2010-02-07T22:06:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T21:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trickartt.com\/notes\/?p=726"},"modified":"2010-02-07T22:34:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T21:34:12","slug":"blue-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/2010\/02\/blue-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lilly and I got the press back in action today! We printed up a few bits and bobs (Including the Howdy<\/em> card above, but we only got one ink out, so everything we did is blue!<\/p>\n

I finally did some linocut stuff to print! I wrote to Jax<\/a> a couple of months ago after she made a nice linocut print, asking what the lowdown on linocut was (I was surprised it really was as straightforward as sticking some lino to a block of wood), so I ordered some lino from Hawthorn Printmaker Supplies<\/a>, along with some other bits and bobs, and the package turned up last week. I spent the day yesterday with power tools, working on some small furniture items for the home, and while I was there, chopped a slab of appropriately thick MDF into chase-sized chunks, as seen in the left picture.<\/p>\n

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I followed these instructions<\/a> Jax pointed me in the direction of, and mounted up a few blocks ready to carve. I came up with a simple little fishscale-y pattern to see how it worked, which seemed to go pretty well! It was a lot easier to carve and yielded a lot more even a result than the wood carvings<\/a> I tried last year. After Lilly printed it up a couple of times, I realised it looked like a big crowd of people sitting in a cinema or something when the other way up:<\/p>\n

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Hello!<\/p>\n

As that went well, I made a nice big Howdy card for us to print, which you should have seen above. Here is my linocut in the press, with some nice off-camera flash action to help bring it out a bit:<\/p>\n

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We didn’t stop there either! We also printed a tiny greeting using some of the Mixed type<\/a> I bought off ebay last week, and the bonus elephant block I bought Lilly as a surprise, which came out much cuter than we were anticipating. Cool!<\/p>\n

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Lilly and I got the press back in action today! We printed up a few bits and bobs (Including the Howdy card above, but we only got one ink out, so everything we did is blue! I finally did some linocut stuff to print! I wrote to Jax a couple of months ago after she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[35,70,36,27],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letterpress","tag-adana","tag-blue","tag-five-three","tag-press"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pC5Eo-bI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}