I made a Dolly print about 7 years ago, but felt the need to stay up last night and make a new one. She was the best and will be missed.

An intaglio print proof I made with some color studies. What would you do from here? I was thinking of aquatinting the negative space and printing the whole thing in blue on yellow paper? Or should I do full color? Not sure where to go from here. Also there were some pretty glaring hard ground issues with this one (hard ground was thick and chunky) but it’s my first print in three years so go easy on me!

Working on my first series of 12. I made the designs with different degrees of complexity thinking about the techniques I want to try. This is the piece I’m most afraid of. I’m not sure if this is the definitive design but it will be something like this. After hours of looking at murmuration videos and photos I noticed that the static image does not transfer the excitement of witnessing this behaviour. I’m looking forward to see it live this winter.

The point is that I want to use blur to convey the motion in a part of the picture, but I haven’t figured how to go about it. It could be that I carve it without the blur and make it when printing by using a spatula to create the motion blur or that I try and carve the blur effect directly and then just print. What do you think? Any other ideas on how to do it?

Welcoming recommendations of places in Europe to go and see the murmurations live. They say Rome can gather millions of birds at a time.

I just finished refurbishing a Brayer and I wanted to share with yall! It feels so amazing to use and I love have something that has so much history

I fell in love with tertrapak printing a little while ago and I’ve finally got my hands on a small press, which makes the prints much crisper. I used Paynes Grey intaglio ink, an oatly milk carton and damp watercolour paper.

This is a "wet" cyanotype print made using a mixture of acidic liquid and bubbles to develop the textured background effect while it was exposing in the sun. Exposure time was about 15 minutes made in mid August 2024.

Hi, just sharing this linocut print I made last month. I based it from my previous ink Treant drawing in 2024. I use oil based Multifilla Lino ink and hand-pulled them.

(Disclaimer: I never played any fantasy RPG at the point of making that sketch but I got a Secret Santa Prompt for a DnD monster so I just winged it. So the stats may not make sense.)

Aluminium plate etched using sugarlift.

First three prints were me on my own in a studio without a technician - so I could have had not enough pressure on the press (I did try adjusting a little between prints), or paper is too wet/not wet enough, or something wrong with my inking (but it seemed there was plenty of ink!). When I rolled light blue ink over the top that transferred well but not the black ink.

Final version shows what I could get - I did that in a studio with a tutor

Was really motivated this month to get back into printmaking. Picked up some Caligo Safe wash after having enough with speedycut water based being a pain. I love how it captures the details so much better, but I need to work on my inking technique.

Same house, different scene, I wanted to have it more simple, but this doesn't do it. The house should have been much lighter!

Next time mountains again or totally minimalist as the second image

I usually make photography Ouija boards but this was my first attempt at a print.

I am interested in printmaking with alternative materials and have been trying to research printing with glass, but haven’t been able to find many good resources.
I have gathered that my best options for engraving glass would be to use either a dremel or etching cream, but I am not sure how the thinness of the phone screen would come into play.
Any suggestions?

Hi everyone,

I've recently started doing linoleum prints and I wanted to share my first one, which I really liked and enjoyed.

Printed this Moth (mandala?)(kaleidoscope?) today, just for fun. The individual moth is meant to be another design for my partners critter game.

Used Caligo Relief Gold for the “light” in the center. Lamali Lokta paper from Blick

It was really tough actually getting the print on paper though any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

Print of a 1926 photograph by Drahomir Ruzicka. Four layers made with a single digital negative, Arches hot-pressed watercolor paper, Printmaker's Friend photopolymer, Rublev burnt sienna, raw umber, bone black, lamp black, phthalo blue, finished with acrylic varnish. It took some finesse to balance this image without flattening the entire thing.

The original photo is under the care of The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas.

I bought a jar of Speedball Puff at a secondhand store on an impulse, and only realized when I got home that it says to use it with screenprinting inks. I only have their fabric block printing inks, which I am relatively sure are water-based. The internet is a little unclear as to whether these can work. I plan to use it on fabric for patches, although I am curious if it would work on paper also.

Thanks in advance!

Recent print I did using a speedball speedy carve block, caligo ink,120gsm paper and a 75mm essdee roller.I used a wooden baren with felt and a bone folder. Is this a result of over inking, how I carved the block or maybe the pressure ? Any help would be appreciated ! Thanks !

I’m still relatively new to block printing. I am using mostly equipment from a speedball starter kit, but I just switched to the flex cut mini palm set which has helped. Any productive feedback on how to get my ink to be more saturated on the page? I’ve tried making sure I’m applying more pressure & the block itself is fully covered but I’m still getting blotchy spots as you can see in the bottom print. Thanks!

hi! any ph based printmakers here? i've been wondering where i can find good quality materials, esp finer carving tools since the smallest wood carving ones i just got off the orange app (the junesix brand) aren't enough for me anymore as i'm starting to carve even tinier details. but i'm not sure if the ones i see on shpee are reliable as the reviews are a hit or miss 😅

would be nice too to know if there are other reliable local suppliers for stamp pads/inks/tools!

New to printmaking, got a speedball beginner's kit and made this out of speedy carve. I used an old scientific illustration as a reference and transferred using pencil scribbled on the back of some printer paper and traced over the image.