REVIEW: Lotta Prints
by Karen of www.chalkhillstudio.co.uk
Lotta Prints – How to print with only inks available were oil based
anything, from potatoes to and colours were limited. Nowadays
linoleum. there are a good range of water
Lotta Jansdotta based inks and textile mediums that
ISBN 9780811860376 are easily available from most art
Having done a little printmaking shops. I hadn’t realised that printing
before, I was a little concerned I was my own designs onto fabric could
wasting my money ordering this be so easy with the right ink and a
book but I needn’t have worried. little bit of preparation and I am now
Lotta Jansdotta has put together itching to have a go!
an inspirational book that has made
what sometimes seems to be a However, for the purposes of this
complicated and messy craft, simple review I chose to try a lino print as
and accessible and more importantly I already had the tools available, all
has brought it bang up to date. The I needed was a new tube of water-
designs are clean, simple and organic based ink. After a quick trip to the
and it encourages you to develop art shop for a tube of cobalt blue, I
your own designs for anything from drew my motif onto the lino block
greeting cards to clothes. and carved away. I spread my ink on
a piece of glass from an old picture
The key to the book is her frame, dusted off my brayer (when I
explanations of the inks to use. The finally remembered where I’d hidden
last time I did any printmaking the it) and off I went.
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