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Recreating a vintage Chrstmas card

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The original card source I wanted to make some prints by recreating a vintage Christmas card. The choice went to this card (above), as I enjoyed the minimal colour palette and the simplicity of it. Here are the images from the lino print process. As always, the inking and printing are the most fun parts of the process. I use water soluble printing paint, to ensure that I can clean the lino plate. A bit of 3D won't hurt

Kosmonaut Exhibition

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 The first week back at university provided us with a challenge exhibition at The Kosmonaut Bar in Northern Quarters, Manchester.  Faced with limited colour palette, we were tasked to create a quality piece of work, developed from the summer project and refined to the best standards.  We rushed into the pace of work and dealt with it quite well, if I may say so, although we were stalled for a day due to the printer failure. Thankfully, our Managing Team (J, Y, C, and S) were up for it and able to find a professional printing service.                                        The exhibition 'Chrome' run from 22nd Sept to 26th Sept.                                    I think that while the experience was needed and useful, it also made us think of different v...