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Hello. My name's Liz Plummer and I'm a Textile Artist. I love the texture of fabric. I love dyeing it and painting it and stitching into it. This blog is about the influences on my work, inspiration, my daily life, and the processes of creating. Enjoy!

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Gocco printing for swap

Sorry for the lack of posts in the last week.  I went down with a heavy cold and lost the impetus to do any more than read emails and blogs.

However, I did get up the enthusiasm to do some Gocco printing.  As I said a few posts ago, I’m taking part in a swap, my very first Gocco swap and it’s exciting!  I decided to alter a photo of the terraced houses in Newport where I live.  I did it in two screens, the first to give blocks of colour and the second to provide an outline.  I used Paint Shop Pro for this and converted the photo into a pencil sketch using the Effects menu. 

Here is the first printing: for some reason I made the screen upside down so all these cards are upside down to help me remember to overprint them the right way round (fortunately, both the screens were upside down or I would have got VERY confused!

cards in card rack with first gocco printing

This is how it looks after the first printing, without an outline:

First card printing

And this is what it looks like after the second printing:

Gocco swap on card - houses in Newport

All drying in the racks:

cards drying in racks

I also printed another screen.  When we were in France we visited Rouen and outside the cathedral there, there was a display about all the artists who had represented the cathedral, the most well known of whom is Monet.  I decided to do some Gocco prints of the cathedral in various colours… I’ve only done red so far but here it is:

Rouen cathedral gocco print

And I also printed on a watercolour pad which I’d previous painted with blue paint:

Rouen cathedral Gocco print

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