It’s been a while (April this year), but this workshop was such an inspiration. It was held at Rhyl Library and Arts Centre by local artist and printmaker Ann Bridges. Very friendly and relaxed, with a hands-on approach to printing, which was useful for a complete novice like me! We created hand cut stencils, some of which were etched into with a ball point pen or sharp tool, and then used these as part of a print process using acrylic inks in the three primary colours and a sheet of acetate. The effects were wonderful – the more you rolled them through the hand flat-bed press the more pastel they became. I experimented with moving the stencils around too, and kept them very abstract as I was already planning to use them digitally. I love hand crafted and traditional media, but I love to incorporate it with digital media, blending the two types of creativity together. I really don’t see either of them as mutually exclusive.
I’m posting a couple of my favourites here. I’ve used one a an infill to one of my favourite fonts, Jugend as my new branding on the website. It just needed masking out after careful positioning 
I promised Ann that I’d rustle something up in Flash, so must get on and do that – watch this space.
