Tuesday 6 September 2011

A mini-photo essay: wrapping paper, from conception to completion




As a way to get more inspiration, I spent a couple of days doing a two minute drawing exercise. I set myself a couple of basic rules (two minutes, each drawing unique and no more than two colours) and each hour I did a drawing. The picture above is some pages from my sketchbook.



From my sketchbook I drew the pattern out onto graph paper.



I used graphite paper to transfer the image from the graph paper to the lino block



The cut block.


Laid out materials: brown paper, rollers, lino block, ink, plastic thing for spreading out ink


Printing in progress



The finished sheet



Close up of the finished design

2 comments:

  1. Hey David, nice to see you again at Jim's leaving party. Was cool to check out your work, the lino printing is a nice technique, where do you actually get the blocks from?

    Cheers
    Sam
    www.samseager.co.uk

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  2. Hey Sam, was great to see you too.

    Most art shops sell it but it is pretty pricey by the sheet, luckily I got gifted a whole stack of them by someone. Next time I need to restock I am going to look for bulk suppliers. Not sure where to start though...

    D

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