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Monotype Printmaking for Beginners – What You Need to Get Started
Monotype is a quick and simple printmaking process. Technically, only one impression is made with a monotype, so the work you create is a unique work on paper, although there is often the ability to...
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The Best Way to Transfer Images to Lino
Transferring a prepared image to lino is a great way of ensuring you minimise the risk of making a mistake in the cutting stage of a linocut print. When making a multi-block print – one image with...
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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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The Best Way to Transfer Images to Lino
Transferring a prepared image to lino is a great way of ensuring you minimise the risk of making a mistake in the cutting stage of a linocut print. When making a multi-block print – one image with...
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Safer Intaglio Printmaking
The term ‘non-toxic printmaking’ has become synonymous with the search for safer printmaking practices and techniques that have a less harmful environmental impact. While it is difficult to use totally...
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Woodcut Printmaking For Beginners – What You Need to Get Started
Woodcut printmaking is a wonderfully versatile medium with a rich history and you need relatively few tools and materials to get started. In this article we describe how to get started making woodcut...
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Testing the New Sláma Press
The new Sláma Graphic Ball Press is a handheld printing press for use in relief, intaglio and lithographic techniques. Made in the Czech Republic, it is designed to be flexible, portable and easy to...
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Etching for Beginners – What You Need to Get Started
Etching is a printmaking technique capable of producing atmospheric tonal prints. The technique can be used on its own or combined with many others – there are endless creative possibilities. In this...
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Screenprinting with Screentec Aqua Art Water Based Screen Ink
Aqua Art Inks are recognised as amongst the finest inks for water based screenprinting and are manufactured in the UK by Screentec Print Essentials. Being manufactured from single pigments, the inks...
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Screenprinting With Dave Buonaguidi AKA Real Hackney Dave
We visited Dave Buonaguidi AKA Real Hackney Dave in his Dalston studio where he creates his infamous screen-printed artworks using Screentec Aqua Art Water-Based Screen Ink. Watch his process below and...
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Sláma Press Printmaking Techniques
In April this year printmaker Emma Jones wrote an excellent review of the Sláma Press, testing it on woodcut, linocut and drypoint. Her prints are usually taken with a bamboo baren or on her converted...
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Jackson’s Curated Sets for Botanical Watercolour, Lino Printmaking and Oil...
Jackson’s Curated Sets are made up of high quality materials, carefully selected by experienced artists, beautifully boxed and wrapped in hand painted paper, and ready to be gifted. Here, the artists...
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Review of Jackson’s Curated Sets: Moku Hanga Printmaking
Cornwall based artist Adrian Holmes tests the Jackson’s Curated Set for Moku Hanga Printmaking and shares his thoughts on each of the materials included and how suitable the set is for beginners to...
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Getting Started In Screenprinting Using Paper Stencils
Screenprinting is the process which involves applying very thin and even layers of colour on to a surface (which could be paper, fabric, wood, metal – pretty much anything flat). The colour is pushed...
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Top Linocut Tips from Leading Printmakers
Linoprint 3 is an exhibition showcasing 30 leading linocut printmakers at Centrespace Gallery in Bristol in February 2023. To celebrate this event, the exhibitors shared their top linocut printmaking...
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Printmaking With Metallic Ink
Printmaking with metallic ink can be an alluring option for adding glamour and iridescent shine to your prints. As we remain deep in winter in the Northern hemisphere and are drawn to glimmers of light...
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Entries Open for The International Original Print Exhibition 2023
Jackson’s is proud to be the lead sponsor of The International Original Print Exhibition 2023. Established by the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE), is an international open submission...
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Linocut Carving Techniques for Beginners
Linocut: Learn in a Weekend is a new book by Margate based linocut artist and printmaker, Nick Morley. Published by Skittledog (an imprint of Thames & Hudson Ltd.) the book guides you through the...
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Customer Review of the Month: Japanese Double Sided Relief Printing Vinyl
Japanese double sided relief printing vinyl is a great alternative to traditional lino. It is easy to carve and gives a clean cut, the smooth surface gives an even print and it takes fine detail very...
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In Conversation With David Valliere From Speedball
As part of our In Conversation series, David Valliere from Speedball came to the Jackson’s Studio to share insights into the company’s history, philosophy, and why the artist community is at the heart...
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