Wood Block Printing

Wood Block Printing

Lynne McFarlane

Upcycling Inspiration

Lynne had won some 'Inspirational Sayings' cards in a competition and when experimenting with different papers for the wood block printing found these to be perfect when slightly dampened, so the upcycling commenced. The printing looks amazing complimented by artists colour pens.

A pale blue background with peach flecks which resemble long blades of grass moving. Lynne has overlaid this image with five and a half black ink printed flowers, the petals of which have been filled with olive green, pale pink, burnt orange, teal and the half flower absorbs the background colours. Printed text already on the card reads - 'There's beauty in everything you do. Take a moment to find it'.

A pale orange background has a six lined white arch on it. Over this Lynne has added seven bold black ink flowers and given each a raspberry centre and teal petals. The pre-printed text reads - 'Imagine you are building a beautiful mosaic pathway stretching back behind you. Every moment is another perfectly imperfect piece. As a whole, a thing of beauty'.

A mix of different shades of pale orange and white multi lined circles and curves. Over this Lynne has printed a series of long thin sets of leaves, similar in shape to an ear of corn. The ink is black and Lynne has coloured them in an olive green. The pre-printed text reads - 'Create a beautiful, quiet sanctuary in your mind that you can enter whenever you choose. What does it look like? How does it feel?'

Samantha Blackburn

Stunning experimentation with mixed media from Samantha here, where she has used a combination of ink print using a leaf and a sponge overlaid with collage imagery.

A beautiful image in various shades of grey from light through to dark charcoal. Leaf prints form the background and the veins and shapes created look like shooting stars. Over this Samantha has placed a series of ethereal goddess styled women from a classical era. They stretch down the length of the image.

Vici Wreford-Sinnott

It's Been Happening for Millennia

A first time experiment for Vici using a mix of wooden blocks and objects at hand including, blue tack, matchsticks, bubble wrap, cotton buds and crumpled tissue. The ammonite shaped print is hand made blue tack irregular shape with a reverse printed spiral applied to the blue tack, then inked and printed. Great fun and very absorbing to do, and finished with digital colouring.

It's been happening for millennia

A large bold black print with an abstract shape similar to an ammonite fossil with a spiral at it's centre. The digitally added background colour is blue.

Same but different

Again, black ink with a digitally added blue background. Six repeat images of the earlier single ammonite shape, with each ione being individual and unique. One is more faded thasn the others, another has been double printed giving a slight blur to it's central spiral. Others have bits and pieces missing, or are angled slightly differently.

Community

An abstract graphic image of black ink on a blue background. At the bottom is a light bubble wrap print, overlaid with a bold lined black love heart. There are five other love hearts from the same print with varying degrees of difference in shade and position. One black dot is in the top right corner and a series of dots suggest the shape of a flower and stem. By Vici Wreford-Sinnott.

Just an illusion

A black ink on a blue digitally enhanced background. A scene emerges of a hilly landscape with a tall tree full of leaves near the top, and a wooden fence, down on which a spiral sun shines with little sunrays emanating. By Vici Wreford-Sinnott

Marked Out

Black ink on a blue digitally enhanced background. Black ink dots create a border around a central spiral, the lines of which are characterfully broken and slightly fragmented. By Vici Wreford-Sinnott.

Always connected, always here

A long narrow image with three ink dots one underneath the other, followed by three thick lined printed hearts one on top of the other vertically, with two more black ink dots underneath. On a digitally coloured back ground of blue. By Vici Wreford-Sinnott

Pauline Heath

Pauline has experimented by using spiral and flower motif wooden blocks with bold colours and shiny jewels of different sizes and colours.

A pale blue background that has bright green stretched to the edges. A spiral wooden block has been used to add cobalt blue spirals on top of the bright green, some of the spirals are thick and almost solid and others are very thin and the spiral appears faded. Pauline has added different size jewels to the centre of the spirals. The jewels are different colours blue, red amber, yellow and pink.

A pale blue background with a thin wash of blue with some splashes of green around the edges. Pauline has used a flower motif wooden block to add black imprints over the top she has then added clear jewels to the centre of the flowers.

A pale blue background that has been boldly covered almost to the edges with golden yellow and autumnal orange. Pauline has then used a spiral motif wooden block to sparingly print the spirals in a dark blue that gives the effect of faded spirals that are almost green or almost black.

A pale pink background that has golden yellow sections to the middle left and lower right of the print. The centre section has been printed with a spiral motif wooden block using cobalt blue over and over giving a blue green effect. The blue green spirals have been lightly printed over the rest of the print but lets the golden yellow stand out beneath.

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