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Postcards: The Trump Fish

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Postcards: Robin House Hospice Seaboar

You remember the previous post about Robin House?  Well I was at it again.  This time I drew inspiration from the Banner o Scotland.  I painted some blue triangles, and then masked them off.

I then stamped fish over the masking, continuing to rock the nautical theme.  Sadly, I smeared a little of the ink while removing the masking tape.  I tried covering it with whiteout, but the paper yellowed while I was curing the ink, enhancing the contrast between the whiteout and the card stock. 

On to Phase Two!  This Boar Whale is from Curious Woodcuts of Fanciful and Real Beasts; my primary source of imagery right now.  I inked it up, cut it out, and glued it to the card I prepared above.

Luckily I was largely able to hide my sins with the placement of the cutout.

I went a little crazy with stamps.

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Postcards: Intense Fish

I really thought I took more pictures of the process on this, but this is all I could find.  This fish is from Curious Woodcuts of Fanciful and Real Beasts, a Dover collection of prints from Gesner and others.  I inked it up, cut it out, and glued it to a postcard I prepared with a watercolor color field.

Postcards: Robin House Hospice Seahorse

Woo boy did this process wander around.  It began with attempting to marble paper, just because we were borrowing a container from Dagny large enough to drop postcards into.  I had once watched a video about suminagashi, and was confident I could figure it out.  After a few missteps, including Carley's attempt to float nail polish, we achieved success; I was able to make two blue green marbled cards.  And one weird pink smeared card.

I returned to Curious Woodcuts of Fanciful and Real Beasts for a seahorse.

After coloring in the seahorse, I cut it out.

My friend Maryanne sent me this article about Robin House Hospice, and their call for postcards.  "“For those who don’t have much time to spare but would like to support CHAS, sending us a wee postcard is also a great way to micro-volunteer.”"    Boom!  Micro-volunteering.

Postcards: nosidaM

I have been hearing the siren's call of printmaking.  Inspired by articles about printmakers using the textures of the city, Carley and I went on a print adventure!

We started with some color blocks

pulled two quick prints

and then returned home to slowly fill in the design.

Was it enough to get printmaking out of my system?  For a while, perhaps.