Printmaking Safety
Our very first day of lino printmaking ended with some interesting facts.
- Fact 1. No matter how many times Miss Regan shows the correct way to cut lino using the special tools someone always manages to cut themselves.
- Fact 2. The more we know about making prints the more we enjoy it.
- Fact 3. Our prints always manage to look beautiful when finished.
Cameron was the unlucky winner of the Printmakers ChocolateFrog. Awarded for being the first to cut himself with the tools. A dodgy honour if ever there was one. Thankfully he was ok and a band aid was put to good use. Courtney looked a bit pale at the sight but managed to compose herself.
Which brings me to printmaking safety. Im going to list the rules and hopefully we can avoid another chisel cut.
- Always cut AWAY from your hand or body.
- Always cut AWAY from your hand or body.
- Always cut AWAY from your hand or body.
- Always cut AWAY from your hand or body.
- Always cut AWAY from your hand or body.
Take your time and rotate the lino to cut in another direction, rather than rotate your ‘cutting hand’ back towards your other hand or body. Take your time with the cutting. Art is not a race, slow and steady is the best policy, it also gives the best results.
4 responses so far ↓
The lino cut looks great though!! Why is it that we can tell students 100 times what to do and there is always someone or several, or many who fail(s) to do it!!
I know Murch, so beautiful. Earwax is the answer, simply not listening or concentrating, I think. I always have a pocket full of band aids when we start lino prints.
Ear wax! How funny….its how we learn though isn’t it…its not enough to be told….we’ve gotta lose a limb before we think about what we are doing….human nature….Darwinism perhaps!
You have quite a following missy……nice cluster map..I want a diseases one like Murch……dots everywhere!
bexta!
I reckon earwax darwinism is the answer for all things.
Murch does have a diseases cluster map, like some outbreak of virtual chicken pox or something.
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