Following on from our newsletter this week I thought it might be fun to show you how you can do some printing at home with all sorts of objects you will find around the house.

Even though I have a big collection of wooden printing blocks some old, some new and many collected on my travels, I still do lots of printing with found objects, you can print with all sorts of things, the rubber end on a pencil, cardboard tubes, corks, potatoes (carved into shapes) and school erasers which carve really easily with a small kitchen knife.

I loved visiting Jaipur and Bagru with Habitat in the 1990s. I had the most amazing time watching the skilled artisans of the village create the most amazing block prints and resist prints and then dip dying them in indigo dye wells, and laying them out on the parched earth to bake dry in the sun. It was the days before mobile phones so I have some actual real photos but no digital record of my trip; the children find this astonishing.

As always inspiration comes from small things, and one of the most important things I took away from my trips to India was that so much can be created from so little. You can find lots more information and inspiration for printing on my Pinterest board PRINT DAY

We made a little video in the studio of me printing with just 2 colours, using acrylic paint and a tester pot.

And here are a couple more prints, speeded up for fun so you can see how super easy it is to get creative this weekend! Happy printing and if you would like to share your results tase us on Instagram and we will show off your creations in our stories.