How about doing a lino print with some stripes in it?…

Dave Whatt

May 31

But first...
Dulltown, UK: Today's, keeping one awake, nighttime noise, is that of a busy mouse relentlessly chewing the woodwork under the bedroom floor.
Bloody 'ell!...
It's 3 am!
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Stripes?
Oh, yes, right ho, then.
Perhaps the stripes could be involved in a small hovering staircase too?
Involved?
Staircases are usually eye-catching, and they generally give the feeling of depth - depth is always good in a print - you know, things getting smaller as they go upwards, or things overlapping one and other, the one on top, being the nearest - the overlapped one, being more distant - that sort of thing! It gives the print a bit of realism. Realism? Yes, they are always better than a print that's as flat as a ...?
A pancake?
Yes, why not? A pancake.
So, how about a rough sketch, then?

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There we go!
So, what do we have here?
Well, there's the drawing. It looks alright, doesn't it?

Now, this photograph was taken last year, and things have changed a bit since then. No, no, the sketch is fine, and it looks a lot like the print that was turned out, but a couple of other things have changed.
Yes, the multi-coloured glass plate, the kitchen cutting board that I used to roll the ink out onto, has gone. Good!
It was well used, but it was rather annoying, in two ways. One, it was just too bloody big, and you can't easily cut that sort of stuff down - and two, I was getting rather fed up with the 1960s-style jolly cheery discs, after a while they did get pretty annoying.
I now have a smaller glass plate, with no decoration on it.
The other thing which has changed - that tin of black oil-based printing ink - that was eventually finished. Being in a tin, it was remarkably messy to use and the top surface of the ink tended to dry out, and go hard - I now have the same ink, but in handy smallish tubes - they are much more manageable.

You may, dear reader, have also spotted that fine brush, the slim thing with a protective plastic tube on its end. I use that quite often, just to 'correct' (a good word that), small 'mistakes' in the final prints.
But, isn't that cheating. Dave?
Oh, yes... I think so...

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