We made some gocco print notecards with one of my daughter’s drawings. I find it frustrating that I can rarely get a good screen impression on these. The screens are so expensive that I hate to try again. My tracing probably needed thicker lines. I’m amazed at all the Etsy sellers who have great gocco screenprints. I think I’d like to learn how to make real screenprints sometime soon.
I heart this! really sweet drawing.
I love the “imperfectness” of it… it adds to the whole hand-drawn feeling. 🙂
SO cute!
This is gorgeous! I love that it looks like an actual drawing – perfection is over-rated on home-made things!
I concur with everyone else. I love it. Being too much of a perfectionist has hindered me from the true form of Art.
I think you did a great job. We also look at our own stuff differently!
I find the skips and splotches sort of charming — especially when looking at only one at a time (as with your photo above). When you see a whole string of the same imperfection, it can be a bit frustrating. But I think your card is adorable — and maybe even moreso because it’s imperfect.
(There’s nothing like an assembly-line-type project to really bring out the perfectionist in me.)
Thanks for all your comments! My six-year-old agrees and likes the splotches. Perhaps she isn’t doomed to be a perfectionist like me.
I came across your blog and wish to say “hi”. Your daughter really has a skilled hand for drawing. I am impressed! And you are so creative to use it for gocco printing. Would you mind to teach us how to do it? Will come back to check on your new updates. Thanks.
I actually think this is perfect in every way. I really want to try gocco down the road. xx
I love the uneven lines. I don’t think it needs to be perfect. Fun stuff
This is adorable!
I tried Gocco printing and had the same exact problems! I don’t know how it is that other artists I see get these clear detailed prints, mine are missing chunks, which makes smaller or detailed designs a challenge. 🙁
All that being said, the style texture on your card above work really well together! I think it looks really cute as is!
Oh my gosh! Go to cbridge.com and buy yourself some photoez. It’s so easy it’s insane and I’m addicted. You put the little screen out in the sun with a sharpie picture and in 5 minutes it’s a screen. If you use a printer picture, it takes only 15 minutes. Has to be one color, but it’s fun fun fun and I don’t know why more people don’t know about it. It takes a bit of careful rinsing after the sun part, but I’ve done designs with teeny details before and it just takes a careful hand and then it sets forever. I put my back in the sun after the rinse mode to harden it and I’ve used them again and again. Get the intro kit so that you have the board and plexiglass and all. Then you can just order screens from then on.
Good luck.
I think it’s adorable!
But maybe the ‘yudu’ (reeeaallly expensive, from ProvoCraft) is something for you?