FAF June Experiments

The FAF group that I belong to has a technique to try every month. For June we are to try printing either by using lino blocks that we cut ourselves or by some other method of stamp making. I have some of the Penscore foam blocks. You heat them up and then press things into them to create your image. The image will stay in the foam until you heat it up again.

I don’t have any printing inks, so I mixed up some cheap acrylic paint with some Golden Glaze to keep the paint wet longer.

I used Yupo Watercolor paper for these samples.

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The one on the left I pressed some old junk earrings into the foam. Evidently I didn’t get enough paint on the block as the detail is lost on a couple of them. The one on the right I laid a bunch of straight pins that have large round heads on the table and pressed the block onto them.













For these I used a cuff link, old earrings and some buttons to create the designs. Once again, I didn’t get enough paint onto them as I only basically got the outlines of the pieces and none of the details.

So I tried again, this time using Canson Watercolor paper.

As you can see, I got a lot more of the detail this time with the one on the lower left; however, I still did not get the details on the lower right print. I think I pressed the objects too hard into the foam and made it harder to get the paint down into the details of the pieces.