Printmaker Ruth Fettis explains her working method in lino print to KS3 students from two of Bradford's secondary schools.
Ruth My name is Ruth and
I work mainly in linoprinting and woodblock, you know, carving. A lot
of work I do is stories just about everyday life and things like that,
recording everyday life.
This is my sketchbook and what I do is, I work out my ideas in my
sketchbook….I work out my ideas in here…I work out my ideas…(Inaudible)
…confidence. Everyone’s brought their sketchbooks.
So…if you get time you’re very welcome to have a look in here.
It’s just where I work out all my ideas and things like that, collage,
and I collect things and stuff like that.
And then when I’ve worked out my idea I transfer it onto the lino,
I want to keep this black, like that, OK? So make sure this hand is
always behind the hand with the blade, OK? Get it in there and start it
waggling from side to side like that, alright? And gradually take that
away. So what you’re doing is carving, alright? And you never know, in
years to come, you might end up as carvers…might do wood or anything,
mightn’t you?
This is what you’ll be doing when you’ve cut out all your block
and you’re happy and everything you want is cut out. Then you put your
paper on top here, like that, you press it down. You get a wooden spoon
- you can’t be a printmaker unless you get a wooden spoon, OK? It’s a
very expensive piece of equipment! And then you go round and round like
that.
You can sort of see it starting to come through. Take it off. It
won’t be perfect because I haven’t spent a long time doing it, ‘cause
I’ve no need to make a print today, OK? So that’s what you’re going to
be doing now.
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