We are continuing to learn printmaking techniques at my Brisbane Institute of Art class. All of the public holidays have meant we have been slow to get started this term. (Still nice to have the public holidays for family time). We have made a start on creating masks for screen printing for the next part of the class. I am a bit of a perfectionist. I know, it is nice for handmade to look handmade and not mass-produced but I think I need some practice in using a craft knife …

I decided to make masks using lock and key designs – something very Alice in Wonderland like and there is something about Alice that lends itself to a bit of creativity and madness. Well at least I think so. Hmmm, maybe I could make a few more masks with rabbits and cups of tea …

Hopefully we will start to print with these masks on Monday. I need to see how everything fits together before I can really understand the technique and then begin to experiment with it.