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Written by John Bloor Printmaker on 2025-01-19 at 22:28

Looking forward to a chaotic Monday in more ways than one!

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Written by John Bloor Printmaker on 2025-01-19 at 13:38

Printed almost exactly six years ago, here is my Cove print.

It is a three colour screenprint. Those were the days when I hardly used any colours!

[#]screenprint #printmakersofmastodon #print #art #craft #coast #cove #illustration

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Written by John Bloor Printmaker on 2025-01-18 at 10:59

Created two years ago, here is my Old Post Office at Fowey linocut.

I had a lot of fun working on this piece!

[#]fowey #cornwall #postoffice #linocut #printmaking #printmakersofmastodon #print #handmade #art #craft

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Written by John Bloor Printmaker on 2025-01-17 at 20:42

I've seen a perfectly spherical egg before. It's not that unusual.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/jan/17/round-egg-discovered-farm-devon-auction

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Written by John Bloor Printmaker on 2025-01-17 at 14:27

I will be editioning this print next week, Rooftops of St. Ives.

It is a seven colour print with transparent greys and whites overprinting the three main colours.

I need to get 30 and it's a hard print to make.

[#]stives #cornwall #screenprinting #printmaking #handprinting #print #art #craft #illustration #heron #coast #coastal

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Written by John Bloor Printmaker on 2025-01-16 at 10:57

Here's the final Shallow Waters print!

I'm very happy with how it came out, I have learned a lot about opaque colours and also have used a new (to me) technique for getting the colours mixed correctly.

This is only available to my Patreon Tier 2 subscribers and at events. It will be £30 at events so if you subscribe you're getting a bargain!

[#]shallowwaters #water #sea #ripples #rocks #thrift #screenprint #printmaking #handprinted #handmade #printmakersofmastodon #art #craft

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Written by John Bloor Printmaker on 2025-01-15 at 19:07

Final print! I will take a good photo tomorrow, this is just from my phone.

I'm pretty happy with it, I learned a lot about opaque colours and also my idea of photographing the test colours and analysing them on the computer worked!

[#]screenprint #printmaking #art #craft #illustration #seascape #sea #waves #rocks #thrift #printmakersofmastodon

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Written by John Bloor Printmaker on 2025-01-15 at 14:41

One colour to go!

[#]screenprint #art #craft #printmaking #sea

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Written by John Bloor Printmaker on 2025-01-14 at 14:46

Ninth layer down!

[#]printmaking #printmakersofmastodon #handprinting #thrift #sea #art #craft

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Written by John Bloor Printmaker on 2025-01-13 at 15:49

Seventh colour down!

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Written by John Bloor Printmaker on 2025-01-12 at 13:03

This print is going to live or die on just how opaque my opaque colours are!

This layer was not as bright as I hoped but it was supposed to be fairly subtle.

[#]shallowwaters #water #sea #waves #coast #screenprint #printmaking #handprinting #art #craft #printmakersofmastodon

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Written by John Bloor Printmaker on 2025-01-11 at 15:20

Second colour down! Starting to look interesting already.

[#]shallowwaters #sea #water #shallow #screenprint #printmaking #handprinting #art #craft #printmakersofmastodon

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Written by John Bloor Printmaker on 2025-01-11 at 13:45

Frida looking chill.

[#]frida #catsofmastodon #kitten #cat

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Written by John Bloor Printmaker on 2025-01-10 at 23:53

Progress on printing Shallow Waters.

I cut up all the paper today, tabbed it and printed the gradient.

I am very pleased with the gradient and the colours although there is slight ghosting due to the squeegee bending too much and me not having enough room around the design to pull the ink.

So tomorrow morning I'm going to print some more with the larger squeegee and see how they come out.

[#]printmaking #printmakersofmastodon #print #art #craft #prints

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