The Pooki Blog
Our blogs are about printmaking, press best practice and creative art.
Pooki People - An Artist spotlight with Mollie Pearce
Join us to chat with Mollie Pearce, Whose artistic style leans towards figurative, with a focus on coastal themes. These themes include not only the coastline itself but also the different architecture that surrounds it. Fabulous places such as Durdle Door, Lulworth Cove, Swanage, and Weymouth serve as a main source of inspiration. Mollie mainly practises the reduction method in lino printing for her work. Layering the colours and experimenting to build up the picture. Some of Mollies recent works have used up to ten layers, which allows incredibly intricate and detailed images.
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Pooki People - An Artist spotlight with Grace Wong
We’ve spoken with the wonderful @gracewong_art a self-taught artist and printmaker who resides in leafy Sheffield her work is inspired by beautiful plants and flowers in her local botanical gardens. With Grace’s Chinese-Malaysian background and love of Japanese art, Grace often incorporates eastern elements in her Art.
5 Tips to Improve Your Lino Print Art
If you are new to linocut printmaking you may be starting to realise that there is a lot to learn about this wonderful process and many things that need to be considered to achieve stunning lino print arts, such as: What type of ink to use? Which tools to buy? How much ink do you need to roll on your carved block?
How can a Pooki Press Improve your printmaking journey?
Linocut is a form of relief printmaking that has been around since the 1860’s but has become increasingly more popular lately, particularly during the recent lockdowns, when many people stuck at home looked to create art for therapy or a way to spend their time.
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