Sunprints

Sunprints
Sunprints I made in the summer at the family cottage

Thursday, 29 July 2021

Printing on a Heat Press

This month I've been taking a course with Jane Dunnewold eco printing on a heat press.  I find it works more quickly and quite differently than the traditional steaming method.  Here's a photo of the press I got.  It's a Siser 15 X 15 inch press.  You can see I made teflon covers for the platens.


 Here are a few of my first prints on watercolour paper on the press.  The colours and the prints are more intense I find.  This is coreopsis and smoke bush leaves on the left and coreopsis and rose leaves on the right.  The smoke bush was not quite ready for printing yet.


I have lots of coreopsis in the garden and they come out bright orange...  The background here is herb robert.  Thanks for having a look!