First off I decided to try my hand at print making. I got a beautiful book for my birthday called Printing By Hand by Lena Corwin which is amazing. It covers block printing, stencilling and screen printing. I have done screen printing in the past at college but haven't quite got the space or supplies at home to give it a go yet, so I decided to start with block printing instead. I had somehow got it into my head that I wanted to create a wood block for printing my tomato silhouette which was so much more difficult and time consuming than I could ever have imagined. I used an old wood scrap from the garage and a dremel to "carve" the shape. The actual wood block looks great, I wish it printed as good as it looked. Maybe I need to use something other than paint to print with, ink maybe... Any suggestions?
Anyhow, since carving wood blocks proved a nightmare I have decided to use foam instead. Cutting foam into the required shape and gluing it onto a backing is soooooooo much easier and prints so much better too. I've been printing little bits of fabric with fabric paint and would love to do something more extravagant, having been inspired by the beautiful block prints of Galbraith & Paul but I have been distracted by bigger projects...
Numero one: I have been asked to make a wedding dress!!! Eeeek! Since finishing a short part time dressmaking course at the local uni, I am blatantly now a supreme expert on creating amazing pieces of couture for the most important day of peoples lives... Not. But I am more than willing to give it a go. More on that in a later post.
Numero two: My twin sisters are turning 21 this weekend, so instead of buying them meaningless gifts I have decided to make them presents that hopefully they will actually like and be more personal than yet another silver key. I can't say too much about it since they will probably read this but I will post the finished goods next week!
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