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Written by John Bloor Printmaker on 2025-02-01 at 23:30

A Formal Horse playing this evening in Basingstoke. It was a great gig!

[#]prog #music #gig #livemusic

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Written by John Bloor Printmaker on 2025-02-01 at 16:14

Off to see a band tonight. I will take my compact camera and see if I can improve on last time. Also looking forward to a couple of beers.

[#]music

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Written by John Bloor Printmaker on 2025-02-01 at 15:16

I have uploaded 542 stock photos, 3D images and vector illustrations onto Pixabay for anyone to use for free.

I used to be on iStock but it was utterly crap so I'm giving back now.

I have many more to upload.

https://pixabay.com/users/johnbloor-47096611/

[#]stockphotography #stock #images #photography #photo #illustrations #resources

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Written by John Bloor Printmaker on 2025-01-31 at 15:15

Delighted to have just sold one of my Harbour Walls screen prints.

It is a twelve colour print with transparent and solid layers overprinted. It is also quite large!

[#]harbourwalls #screenprint #printmaker #printmaking #art #craft #print #printmakersofmastodon

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Written by John Bloor Printmaker on 2025-01-31 at 13:23

My 1300th purchase on Bandcamp is this excellent sounding noise rock album by This Is Wreckage.

https://thisiswreckage.bandcamp.com/album/transaction-service

[#]music #noiserock #rock #bandcamp

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Written by John Bloor Printmaker on 2025-01-31 at 10:57

Exactly a year ago I completed these three Leaping Animal prints including stags, foxes and hares.

They are each two colour screenprints.

[#]stag #hare #fox #foxes #stags #hares #screenprint #printmaker #printmaking #art #craft #printmakersofmastodon

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Written by John Bloor Printmaker on 2025-01-30 at 10:57

So here's another big print of mine which I finished editioning just before Christmas, it's of Mevagissey Harbour.

It is a six colour screenprint.

[#]mevagissey #harbour #cornwall #screenprint #printmaker #printmaking

[#]printmakersofmastodon #art #craft

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Written by John Bloor Printmaker on 2025-01-29 at 11:20

Frida is good at getting places she shouldn't be...

[#]frida #cat #CatsOfMastodon #kitten #loudspeaker

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Written by John Bloor Printmaker on 2025-01-29 at 10:21

So here's another print I did of somewhere in Cornwall, this is Coverack.

It is a two colour linocut and was one of my most successful prints.

Definitely inspired by the amazing work of Bryan Angus.

[#]linocut #printmaking #print #printmaker #printmakersofmastodon #art #craft #harbour #coverack #cornwall

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Written by John Bloor Printmaker on 2025-01-28 at 20:53

Here's the finished St. Ives print. I actually got a few good ones!

I need to work out if I need to print any more.

[#]stives #cornwall #screenprint #art #printmaking #craft #handprinted #handmade #printmaker #printmakersofmastodon

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Written by John Bloor Printmaker on 2025-01-27 at 12:49

Well this layer went a lot, lot better, but I have so many bad ones from the light grey layer.

Anyway here is a good one!

Two layers to go.

[#]stives #cornwall #rooftops #screenprint #printmaking #art #craft #screenprinting #print #printmakersofmastodon

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Written by John Bloor Printmaker on 2025-01-26 at 00:11

I'm slightly confused about #pixelfed

I've just downloaded the app on my phone, connected my Mastodon beige.party account and posted something.

But there's already a bunch of images from me!

Will Pixelfed pick up every image I post here?

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Written by John Bloor Printmaker on 2025-01-25 at 23:47

Today I was served up a pornographic image created by AI in my Facebook home feed. It was disguised to look like something else but still.

(I have nothing against porn if that's your sort of thing but I found it offensive that it was there in my home feed.)

I've had enough of it. It is the last straw.

I'm trying Pixelfed and hopefully will pull the plug on Instagram soon.

[#]meta

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Written by John Bloor Printmaker on 2025-01-24 at 15:35

Wow this is hard to print. I am not sure how many are perfect but you can see this one is not.

Anyway this is the transparent grey layer. It should get easier from here!

I have 10 spare so hoping I don't get more than 10 bad ones.

[#]stives #screenprint #printmaking #handprinting #cornwall #art #craft #printmakersofmastodon

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Written by John Bloor Printmaker on 2025-01-24 at 13:29

Third colour down. Hard going! Having to press hard.

Next colour is the hardest and then it gets easier.

[#]stives #screenprint #printmaking #handprinted #rooftops #art #craft #printmakersofmastodon

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Written by John Bloor Printmaker on 2025-01-23 at 13:14

Managed to print the first colour ok.

It is a tough print to make, because I don't have a vacuum table, it wants to pull up with the screen and I have to use spray mount on the table.

Most important is to try not to pull on the tabs, as it will go out of registration.

[#]screenprint #printmaking #handprinted #stives #rooftops #printmakersofmastodon #art #craft

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Written by John Bloor Printmaker on 2025-01-22 at 15:24

Agnetha.

[#]cat #CatsOfMastodon #kitten

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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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