Catherine Thompson

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'Shelter' 1/7

Relief printing using water washable inks

Image size 24 x 38cms

These inks rolled up easily, spreading evenly on both roller and lino. The first application of ink was hard to print and the block had to re-rolled and printed several times. Blues were particularly difficult. Subsequent colours were easily overlaid. One benefit was that the inks are more opaque than the oil based inks I regularly use and the colours remained unchanged by underlying colours. I found that I did need to use vegetable oil alongside water when cleaning both roller and block.

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