Fabic printing

 

After some hit and missing printing onto the t-shirts I did some more research and ended up getting myself some Essdee fabric inks along with a Essdee fabric roller. What a difference that made, the ink is quite different from the speedball ink I was using and the roller worked some much better.

To do some more testing and experiments I stopped into the local Hospice Shop and picked up 4 second hand t-shirts and 1 ladies top.

They came out much better, the first two I over inked a little bit as I got use to the new ink, but the last couple of the rose worked really well.

Bloody stomping

 

Had my first game of 2025. Starting in a League game of Blood Bowl. My GutterBlade Skaven up against Keven’s Chaos Dwarfs. Had a good start and was up 2/0 after turn 4 with a sweet perfect pass over several of the dwarfs. But with Kevin’s dice rolling I got stomped on big time, with 5 of my guys getting injured and several K.O’s. I couldn’t touch him with only a few knockdown the whole game. Ended up playing the last 4 turns with only 5 on the pitch. Gamed ended up 2/3 to the Chaos Dwarfs. Four of my guys missing the next game and three with niggling injures.

Was a fun game to get back into play Blood Bowl on my awesome home made pitches.

Just need to get the last few models painted before the next game.

T-Shirt time

 T-Shirt time again. I’m still struggling with getting consistent prints from using the Speedball Fabric inks. I watched a few videos and picked up a few tips, but still getting to light patches coming thought. A lot more experimenting required I think.

Tried my first coulored T-shirt which I'm super happy with.

Mahl Stick

 After getting thought about half my A3 sketch I found my hand was starting to smudge some of the work, so decided to try out a Mahl Stick. After having to look up what they were called I decided to make my own from an old hackie sack, some left over felt offcuts with a bit of dowl timber I had lying around.

Takes a bit of getting use to using and I can see myself modifying the stick with some felt or leather to soften up the stick part that your hand rests on.  I may even need to go for a thicker dowl, but I’ll give the home made one a bit more of a workout. Main thing is that it works and I’m not smudging the drawing.

Home made Mahl stick

Pencil sketching

 

Started drawing again over Christmas, trying to improve my skills, especially with drawing the human figure. So found a random picture of a lady and got stuck in. Did a few small sketches which were terrible, and then busted out the old drawing books and got back into it with a A3 size drawing.

A couple of progress shots of the drawing so far, still got alot to do

 

 

Mountain Lake

 2025 and the start of a new year. Been relaxing and not doing alot, other than the usual family catch ups. I have just finished the first carve of a new lino print, another large print at 500mm x800mm. I’ve cut out the sun and a large part of the lake so they will stay nice an white (or paper colour). I may even try airbrushing in some colour post printing. I used a super-sized sharpie pen to blacken the print as I carved. 

I’ll do a test print in the next few days, but expect I’ll need to tidy up a few parts and make the call on whether I add in some more detail or not.