Phil Tyler
Printmaking can be fun to learn and offer new insights into ways of working. One of its many advantages is that it will enable you to produce more than one version of an image you’ve already created.
You don’t need specialist equipment to explore printmaking, in fact you can do a great deal at home without too much expense, reusing materials that might otherwise be destined for the bin. The thing about all printmaking is planning: thinking ahead and sometimes thinking of the next step before you make it. You need to decide what image you are trying to produce at the outset. So it is a really good idea to work from an image that you’ve already created. For this demonstration print I used a collage based on a Euan Uglow painting as my starting point.