the city is made from a load of dismantled radios. i'm spraying all the pieces white, so hopefully when it's done it'll look like an architectural model. it's going in a radio shape/size case cut from clear acrylic (eventually, if tech decides to take pity on me). so it'll be a little world inside a radio. i have teeny tiny people and trees for finishing touches too
totally on topic
if it's any consolation i've had my nastiest crafting cuts with lino cutters. some blades are definitely sharper than others and it's the blunt ones you have to look out for (because you have to use so much pressure on them). is it easy cut lino? tbh i'm only really safe on rubbers 
aww
), realising this might take a little longer than expected 
finished object spam \o/
(for scale it's 6 x 4.5 x 1.5cm)
ime, everyone cuts themselves in their early days of linocutting, but it's my absolutely favourite printmaking technique. black and white prints are great, but there's something about the methodical process involved in reduction printing for multiple colours that i loved. my final piece (i did a printmaking module as part of my degree) was seven or eight colours.There was a softer, rubbery sheet and a harder/thicker lino type (not sure of the terminology?) - I was just trying to do a test design in the centre of the harder sheet with the bluntest, as you said (thinking it would be safer) and I put such force into it that it jumped and got embedded in the pad of my finger.
Ah well. Probably for the best that this happened first time tbh - I went in very lackadaisical and without respect, will actually be paying proper attention to safety in future.
I wanted to linoprint a Burning Man logo for a mate of mine that's just got it tattoo'd (
thanks. i'm so chuffed you think that my initial inspirations were dark age and medieval enamelwork and once i finished i thought it captured some of that feeling. not that any of the roughness was intentional, but a happy accident.
Sadly not. Most of my prints got damp and crumpled before I could frame them. I binned them some time in around 1990/2000.
i have a plastic box with all my good work in, it's my one thing to grab if the house burns down oh i guess the kids too 
There was a softer, rubbery sheet and a harder/thicker lino type (not sure of the terminology?) - I was just trying to do a test design in the centre of the harder sheet with the bluntest, as you said (thinking it would be safer) and I put such force into it that it jumped and got embedded in the pad of my finger.
Ah well. Probably for the best that this happened first time tbh - I went in very lackadaisical and without respect, will actually be paying proper attention to safety in future.
I wanted to linoprint a Burning Man logo for a mate of mine that's just got it tattoo'd (
There was a softer, rubbery sheet and a harder/thicker lino type (not sure of the terminology?) - I was just trying to do a test design in the centre of the harder sheet with the bluntest, as you said (thinking it would be safer) and I put such force into it that it jumped and got embedded in the pad of my finger.
Ah well. Probably for the best that this happened first time tbh - I went in very lackadaisical and without respect, will actually be paying proper attention to safety in future.
I wanted to linoprint a Burning Man logo for a mate of mine that's just got it tattoo'd (
Probably a bit too warm to wear yet, but I thought it was better to make it before it's needed. For once, the yarn was free - several balls of it came from a garage clearance. There's enough for boot cuffs, armwarmers, and goodness knows what else.
my current project is rather involved (no shit 
) i'm going to attempt reeling silk from cocoons, spinning and then weaving it. but for that i need a really small sampling loom, smaller than anything i could make by hand and you can't buy them. so i laser cut me one 
i'm hoping if i stay on his good side i might get the keys to that next
