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National Original Print Exhibition at Bankside Gallery
The National Original Print Exhibition 2017 runs from 20th September to 1 October 2017 at Bankside Gallery on London’s South Bank. The exhibition seeks to show the best in contemporary printmaking, and...
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Linocut Cardmaking Inspiration
It has become an annual tradition at Jackson’s! Each year we ask artists to submit a photo that will encourage people to make their own linocut Christmas Cards. Since there are so many lovely, skilled...
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A Look Inside ‘House of Cards’ by Sarah Hamilton
If you would like to make handmade cards for your friends and family this winter but don’t know which medium to use, Sarah Hamilton’s book ‘House of Cards: Step-by-Step Projects for Beautiful Handmade...
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How to Make Your Own Wood Engravings for Christmas or Greetings Cards
Wood engraving is a relief printmaking technique, like linocut or potato-printing. It’s not the easiest technique to get the hang of, but it’s a very versatile medium, and because the wood used is...
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Hand Printing with Schmincke Linol Inks
Linoprint is a very user-friendly medium and Schmincke College Linol and Schmincke printmaking mediums are great for printing on surfaces such as paper and cardboard. The starter set of inks contains...
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Choosing a Silk Screen Paper by Legion Paper
We were fascinated to read Leigon’s project in which they interviewed various leading print studios about what kinds of papers they used when screen printing and felt that their findings would be...
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Screen Printing with Jackson’s Studio Acrylic Paint
Liz Whiteman Smith is a full-time printmaker based in London, best known for her colourful screenprints of London buildings, Alice in Wonderland characters, patterned boobies, quirky dinosaurs and her...
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Linocut Christmas Card Inspiration
Each year we ask artists to submit a photo that will encourage people to make their own linocut Christmas Cards. It has become an annual tradition at Jackson’s! Since there are so many lovely, skilled...
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Mokuhanga: New Arrival Japanese Woodblock Printing Materials
The jacksonsart.com Printmaking department has been having a makeover! In this post our Print expert, Jill Watton, presents some new additions to our Relief Print department and explains the technique...
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5 Recommended Pfeil Tools for linocut by Artist Colin Blanchard
Colin Blanchard is an experienced linocut print artist and blogger of his process. In this specially commissioned article Colin explains why he believes you only need 5 Pfeil tools in your box....
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Casting A Spell: Image Making with Screenprint, Linocut and Gold Leaf by...
In this post artist Colin Blanchard charts his journey through making a print of a hare incorporating Screenprint, Linocut and Gold Leaf. By Colin Blanchard A while ago I wrote a post about lino tool...
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3 Artists Adapt To Help Flatten the Curve
Artists are continuing to work in spite of not being able to go to their studios because of the pandemic lockdown. They have adapted their practices and set up temporary home studios. With the...
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Sharpening Linocut Tools by Colin Blanchard
In this post Printmaker Colin Blanchard talks us through how to sharpen linocut tools using a number of sharpening stones including the Flexcut Slipstrop and a Japanese sharpening stone. Text by Colin...
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Setting Up the Fome Etching Press
In this first article in our series about the Fome Etching Press, our printmaking expert, Jill Watton, shows us how to set up the popular Fome etching press, to get the most from this great little...
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Intaglio Printing with the Fome Etching Press
In this second article in our series about the Fome Etching Press, our printmaking expert Jill Watton shows us how to use this popular intaglio printing press for intaglio printing and how to get the...
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Relief Printing with the Fome Etching Press
In this third and last article in our series about the Fome Etching Press, our printmaking expert Jill Watton shows us how to adapt this popular intaglio printing press to be able to use it for relief...
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Making Woodblock Prints
Making Woodblock Prints is a DVD workshop taught by master printmakers Merlyn Chesterman RE and Rod Nelson, filmed in Chesterman’s North Devon studio. It covers essential topics, including mark making...
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Printmaking: Comparing Lino, Softcut, Speedy Carve and Japanese Vinyl
Linocut printing is a relief print process that involves cutting into a sheet of lino, applying ink to the uncut shapes and lines, and then printing on to a flat surface, usually paper. Lino is an...
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Everything You Need to Know About Printmaking Paper
There is an interwoven history of papermaking and printing criss-crossing back and forth over centuries. Paper was not necessary for the invention of printing, but printing would not have been a...
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Linocut Printmaking for Beginners – What You Need to Get Started
There is something beautifully simple about the linocut process although the prints it produces can be extremely intricate and complex. A print is created by carving a design into a block of lino,...
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