Making Friday: Block Printing mega version
This week, I’m in Jaipur, India, starting my second teaching stint with Ritchie Ace Camps. Last year’s Jaipur experience was amazing (lots of pics here), and I can’t wait to meet everyone who is coming on the 2015 version (although I’m going to miss last year’s group like mad!).
I hadn’t used block printing techniques a lot before this teaching opportunity came up, but it’s become a real staple of my pattern development these days.
I haven’t shared a lot of my printing pics, which I’ve just taken on my phone along the way, because they’ve just been ticking along in the background, and are just a case of “thinking with my hands”. But still, they’re interesting to see, so let’s consider this a bit of a catch up mega Making Friday post, showing bad pics of some of the things I’ve been printing in my studio, behind the scenes:
Beka
Hello! love these, I have been experimenting with this too but am having trouble finding ink. What brands do you recommend. Thanks!
skinnylaminx
Hi Beka
I’m in Cape Town, where I use the local Dala brand of fabric paints. If you’re elsewhere in the world, you might like to try the Speedball inks, or else just ask at your local craft shop for fabric paints and see how they work for you.
Best,
Heather