Print Making!
Print making uses ink. Unlike paint, this will stick to your clothes etc! Also, unlike paint, you only need a tiny amount. We use rollers to roll the ink onto our stencils. You know you have the right amount of ink on your roller when it makes a “kiss” sound, if there is no sound you have too much ink!
Stencils were made by drawing on paper, then tracing those drawings onto pre-cut squares of Styrofoam using a ball-point pen. The ben tip rolls nicely over the styrofoam surface, and doesn’t require much pressure to make indentations.
After the stencil is complete, ink is mixed to the desired colour on a board, and rolled onto the roller at the appropriate thickness. Then, ink is applied to the stencil using the roller.
The stencil is “stamped” onto paper, and then re-stamped rotating the piece so that the inner corner touches its print. See our examples below.
These are some of our finished products