Mono Printing with Charles Shearer.

I had the great opportunity to attend the brilliant Ashridge Summer School in Devon this year, it's organised by Desdemona Macannon. The superb printer Charles Shearer ran a two colour mono-printing class.

Here is the print I made. 

Master Class in Primitive Printmaking - University of the West of England

Back for its 3rd year, it’s the Primitive Print summer school at UWE,

it'll be great if you can make it,

here are all the details. 

Primitive Print in the City 3

LED BY: STEPHEN FOWLER

DATES: 26-27 JULY 2016

TIMES:9.30AM - 4.30PM

PRICE:£170 FULL PRICE OR £136 CONCESSIONARY RATE

INCLUDES: MATERIALS AND CATERING.

BOOK ONLINE NOW: THE ONLINE STORE

This is the third year for the primitive print summer workshop, this time we will be printing exclusively in the field, we will visit the city’s parks, riverside, streets, market, galleries and museums to collect raw materials and make prints over the two days.


This experiential course, takes Bristol as its starting point to explore a variety of ‘primitive print’ approaches, including; carved rubber stamp, root vegetable printmaking (such as yams & potatoes), clay block printing (utilising reliefs created by clay impressions of objects and surfaces), plaster printing (from hand engraved blocks of plaster) and found objects printing


  

Antique Rubber Stamps

For the last few weeks I've been staying temporally in my Sisters house. I haven't had the space, or time to make my own stamps, but I have purchased quite a few stamps off the net. These are antique stamps from the 1960s, and 1970s. I've managed to find some great bargains from the USA and around the UK.

My niece and I have been trying them out, making mail art, get well soon cards and other things.

Getting ready for Primitive Printmaking.

I'm preparing for my 'Primitive Printmaking' summer school at the University of the West of England.

Part field trip/part print-room based, this experiential course takes Bristol as its starting point to explore a variety of 'primitive print' approaches, including; adapted roller printing (using carved scaffolding foam and pipe lagging), carved rubber stamp, root vegetable printmaking (such as yams & potatoes), clay block printing (utilising reliefs created by clay impressions of objects and surfaces), plaster printing (from hand engraved blocks of plaster) and creative surface rubbings from collage constructions.

The more portable printing techniques will from part of a 2-day field trip to record and collect raw material from the city's parks, river, streets, market, galleries and museums. You will be encouraged to draw areas of interest and collect artefacts and souvenirs to inspire the remaining 3 days in the print-room. 

It runs from for 5 days from 28th July to 1st August 

Researching I came across a charming British Pathe film on the great pursuit of Coal-Hole Rubbings

Page Phillips, an antiques dealer, discovered that coal hole covers could be rubbed, just like brass rubbings. M/S of a man at night with his paper and rubbing equipment. He kneels on a pavement and starts rubbing to get a print. In the day, we see Page taping cartridge paper over a coal hole cover in the pavement, and making his rubbing. In his shop we see various prints, and a woman buying one which has been made into a table mat.




And I came across a book by Mark Simmonds
take a look at it online:  Some Examples of Coal Hole Covers          
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and I 

Take a look at this book as well,