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ETSY How-To: Tugboat Printshop make a woodcut print. Nobrow 5 - Repeat Pattern and Process. Nobrow 5 debuted at 'Pick Me Up' London last week and is now available from the Nobrow website. The theme of the issue is 'A Few Of My Favourite Things' which needed to be worked into a repeat pattern using 3 regular pantone spot colours and 1 gold metallic pantone. Blimey! It was bloody tricky but the results were worth it. The cover of the issue is by Micah Lidberg and inside features work from Bjorn Lie, Nick White, Meg Hunt, Matthew The Horse, Jon Boam, Rob Hunter, Nishant Choksi and many, many more. I thought it might be interesting to run you through each spot colour layer for my piece. The first pantone is yellow and I used the colour at 100%, 70% and a 40%. The highest opacity that I used the blue at was 85% due to a conversation with Rob Hunter about how dark the blue will print compared to how it appears on the computer screen.

Next up is red. Here we have the pinkish red and yellow crossing over and making a strong red. Here is the finished illustration. Weidman's whimsical works. Where does somebody’s personal style come from? David Weidman's work is immediately recognizable as his own, yet it bears numerous influences he picked up along the way. In art school (he attended the Jepson Art Institute) one of his teachers was Rico Lebrun who showed him there was something else than the omnipresent Norman Rockwell school of realism. He turned him onto the work of Matisse and Picasso (yes, him again…), artists working with the “graphic elements” of image making.

Later on, out of school and having to provide for his family, Weidman worked for several animation studios, one of which was UPA (United Productions of America), known for its more simplified, flat style of animation (as opposed to the, again, more realistic style of Disney). Later still, from the early 60ties on, Weidman started to work for himself, setting up a home printing studio and shop.

The idea to do so might have primarily come That’s it. More Weidman? Le tampographe sardon. Children, beware! Foul language and imagery not for innocent eyes. This French stamp-maker seems like a very unpleasant person. His interests are crude, his politics not politically correct and his studio is a mess. He seems to associate with people like those working at the publishing house Le Dernier Cri, which says more than enough, I think.

Therefore, we shall not pay any attention whatsoever to this person and his images. Linocuts : un album. Cordel from Hell. Beautiful, often dark work from Brazilian illustrator Samuel Casal. Check out the video below for a short look at the man at work in his printmaking studio… More work can be found at samuelcasal.com. (Found via The Little Chimp Society)