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poladroid.
I know this is already halfway round the internet by now, but I’m a little late on the bandwagon with this one- Poladroid. It’s a compact application for mac or pc that mimics the saturated, out of focus look of polaroid film. Of course, yes you could get the same effect by using a few [...]
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printmaking+pattern.
Time to show some of what I’ve been up to over the long and quiet month of December! The above is a linoprint, which works quite nicely on fabric, but not so well on the texture card. (Underneath is my incredibly messy desk!)
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linear monotype tutorial.
11.21.08 | Permalink | 4 CommentsTurns out the monoprints I posted aren’t really monoprints, they’re more accurately called linear monotypes, and might not be as common as I thought. Either that or it’s such a well know technique that no one bothers to talk about it! Regardless, I thought I’d post a mini how to about it, obviously I’m not an expert, this is just the way I do things.
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own work, Techniques
monoprinting.
Just been messing around with some printing techniques lately. These are a few monoprinting images, a technique which is about the simplest method you can get. I quite like the messy look of these, you can get a smoother effect by blotting first, but I prefer not to.
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own work, Techniques
eraser carving tutorial.
11.17.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsRubber stamps are, as a rule, foul. They’re twee and sentimental, a low-fi clipart. But you can make your own rubber stamps, an easy way to reproduce your own designs. I made a simple design to show you how.
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