jackie, me and this lady

What’s wrong with me? over the last few weeks i really got into printmaking. Like REALLY. Ive been doing this basically all day every day and there is no end in sight, its just so. fucking. fun. You know the drill, like coming up with multilayered images and carving those into lino and stuff, the way some of you may have been forced to in school. There is this monthly printmaking contest with changing prompts and prizes. As you may have guessed, this is about me entering this contest. How does this work?

You can check the contest entries on printmakersmatrix.com. This months prompt is poster, meaning a printed image including text. I made a poster inspired by my favorite radiohead song, weird fishes / arpeggi. the community votes and the winner recieves a speed ball press. asking family or friends to sign up and vote for you is encouraged. Have a look at the designs, atm there are 25 entries so it shouldn’t be too overwhelming. You might enjoy mine (photo above) or you might prefer a different one, really just pick your favourite. You can not sort these entries, they will be shown in a random order.

Create an account and vote. (These people will not send you any emails you don’t want and it’s really just a tiny community of people who enjoy printmaking, so nothing fishy to worry about)

At this moment, since this community is still quiet small, there is a low number of total votes and while i am writing this i am only 3 or 4 votes behind the current first place, so it wouldn’t take a lot. I really put so much thought and energy and also a few breakdowns into this print.

If you want to vote for me and you see I am still in second place, I would be so grateful for you to do so! If I should be in the lead (in case this really works out haha) you don’t have to do this of course. This months contest goes on for 6 more days, which means voting will be closed on the 30th of April. oh and if you do vote, feel free to let me know! (if you want to be appreciated. pls let me appreciate you.) ❤︎-❤︎-❤︎-❤︎-❤︎-❤︎-❤︎-❤︎-❤︎-❤︎

Bonus: what ive been working on

At the moment I am still exclusively printing by hand, since a press is quite expensive. So I use a wooden spoon. Works surprisingly well, but I’m still desperate for the upgrade.

In case you are interested in what I am making, here are current favorites:

↑↑↑ (a very, very important hug from the gay german cop show i am so very normal about)

↑↑↑ (colorful tamagotchi cards and oh wow look at this under water pool print i made for last months prompt "water") + radiohead poster print bts this entire process from sketch to print took me so long its not funny anymore.

↑↑↑ (copies of some of the many many versions I drew on my ipad, the fucking wooden salad spoon i use to print, and the lino blocks I used)