Handmade Monday Block Out

I am assembling small printing blocks because I enjoy…

• Multiples: Being able to reproduce the same, or similar image repeatedly and in variation so that there is more than one.
• Repetition: I am naturally attracted to patterns. There is beauty in organization, design, and structure. Can be organic or geometric.
• Layered imagery. Inspired by the effects fabric artists get with cloth and my long-time experience in using watercolor. I want to create depth through layering of color and image.
  

  Simple rubber stamp made with Speedy Cut. I used this to give a faux linoleum print feel.

I used Speedy Cut for the large square block, and sticky-backed flexi cut, which is a thin, easy-to-cut rubber material, mounted to a square of thick binder’s board for the shape blocks.

Relief blocks made out of sheets of flexi-cut mounted on heavy binder’s board.

Blocks were then printed onto a piece of handmade 100% cotton rag paper that I previous painted with watercolor and left to dry covered in bubble wrap. The resulting image leaves the circle pattern of the bubble wrap in the dry paint.

Top: Different trials with stamps.
Bottom: Me with the final result.

This paper will get used as a cover for a handmade book, so stay tuned! More about that, later.