Friday, 3 October 2014

Printing wood for construction of lino cutting /printing V board.

This unique design for a cutting and printing base for lino art blocks was designed by a Terrific print maker David Frazer. He has the design patented and sells it online. A very simple affair when it comes to registering, cutting a lino block and also printing from the one platform. I had been contacted and asked to correct a few glitches with regard to the screen printing on wood.
After spending 2 years in reserch and development for my personal projects in relation to printing on many different substrates including plastic, metals and wood. The corrections were made for davids V boards and the results turned out clean and presise. Happy Days and phew....!



The compleated Product in red.


Us in the studio.Yep my hat is my hair, he is just showing off!


Drying of the print run in my studio.

Davids large silk screen frame, ROCK ON!

Speeding up the drying cycle as many boards still to go and space is running out.
All in a good days work, which makes it so much more fun if the end result works. Love to be part of the creative process especially when the job at hand is producing something functional and original.
All the best ith the sales Davo.

Old sponge recipe 1967

This latest job was for a client who wanted to present her extended family with a beautiful christmas gift this year. The brief was that she had the original sponge recipe written by her mother in 1967 and she wanted the image cleaned up then transfered to silk screen. Finally the recipe was printed onto 100 % linen T towels in a deep blue ink and given as chistmas gifts to be enjoyed by all recipients.

Original Hand written recipe 1967

The image has been cleaned up and scaled to 70cm *140cm. I also added a simple illustration of four eggs on the top left.




Now presented in a tactile and functional way, the old recipe looks fantastic and the client was so pleased with her 25 T towels.

This project had a nice story behind it and was fun to liase with the daughter of the creater.
"The four egg sponge"