I was doing some adult teaching with the 9-to-90 Creative Community today, working up some little lino blocks from the drawings we did last week of the Mari Lwyd down at Swansea Museum. I wanted to check how my block was coming along so I put a piece of tracing paper over it and rubbed it hard with a block of graphite (top of picture above) and I now have a better idea of what else I need to cut. You can do this by printing up a proof print, but that’s messy and I don’t want to get my ink and roller out for just one print. Using graphite and tracing paper is easier and cleaner.
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