swallowtail butterfly stamp I carved for my student for her printmaking assignment. I couldn't figure out how to adapt linocarving for her (dexterity/strength/hand contractures, if you have suggestions believe me I'm all ears) so I carved this with her input so she can at least do the printmaking portion. I might help her carve some foam with a pencil if she wants. either way I had fun, butterflies are fun subjects. now to wash off the garbage sparkly purple ink before class tomorrow,
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in reply to @Donnie's post:
Besides the foam plate printing, maybe try collagraph printing? She could assemble and glue the design, and you could print it. It's a type of print that does work better in a press, but maybe if you print with a thick felt or foam it might help catch more details. Layered, it would look like:
Spoon/baren
Parchment paper (less friction when printing)
Felt
Paper
Collagraph
You should be able to find a video that explains the process much better than I am
great suggestion!!! I might try some of that or at least as similar as I can make with her tomorrow! I assume in class they're doing really simple relief printing but it should be doable to glue some leaves or something to a piece of board and have her stamp it! everything I do with her is generally my hand over her hands helping her, but something like collography she can have more input on and it's uhhh less dangerous than hand over hand linoleum carving
a slightly stiffer version of foam plate printing would be carving/imprinting into a sintra (soft pvc) plate! it’s still soft enough that you can make a mark with your fingernail with sufficient pressure, but not so soft that you’re likely to make too many accidental marks, if that’s a concern
ohhh i havent heard of sintra boards before but i might look into them! thanks for the suggestion!
you can both make imprints into them and glue things on top! the surface is pretty porous, so things adhere well and it has a nice mid plate-tone (if you’re doing an intaglio ink style rather than relief) which you can change by painting over with acrylic medium. a glossy acrylic medium will wipe clean for white, and a matt medium or mixing in varying levels of a fine grit sand can make shades for grey or even a rich black!
but I might be jumping ahead a few projects, considering it’s for a class
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