miuspot:

I’m taking a printmaking class this semester! And out of sheer stupidity and my bad habit of working obsessively for more than a few hours straight at a time, I probably gave my wrist a stress fracture, but that is hopefully just the worse case scenario.

The first four prints I did with my linocut were done from Speedball block-printing ink, which didn’t work well for me. I need to try again with a more absorbent paper, but the oil-based ink I was using during class worked the way I wanted it to, if it wasn’t for the little bits of linoleum that didn’t get cleaned off the plate.

The last two pictures are the oil-based inks. The left one on both is the last print I made on Monday with sepia ink and Arches BFK paper (I think) and the first and the last prints I made last week on what feels like Bristol paper.