114: Christina’s Lino Life

Podcast – Adventures in Arting Podcast

Today’s guest is Christina Richmond, aka Tweeny. Christina lives in Bath, and as a Jane Austen fan, I’ve always had a fantasy version of Bath in my head. We do chat about this at the top of the podcast, but then we get into the creative meat of the matter: when graphic design meets lino.

Meet Christina:

She is a designer by day, living and working in the beautiful city of Bath, and an artist-printmaker in her free time.

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She has been print-making for around 9 years, mostly creating small lino prints packed full of detail.

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Christina is teaching how she creates her stamp designs on her iPad in the #CarveDecember Class.

Some things we discuss on the podcast:

• being part of a creative couple
• precision
• Pfeil Tools
• Flexcut Slipstrop for sharpening tools
• relationship between lino and graphic design
• lino carving as a hobby, with no desire to make it a profession
• lino vs rubber (lino is biodegradable)
• Christina’s ideal studio
• Presses: Book Press, Woodzilla Press
• Beth Lewis of @booloulewdesign
• not rushing things

Links for Christina:

• https://www.instagram.com/tweeny/
• http://www.tweeny.etsy.com
• https://www.facebook.com/tweenyprints/

Recommendations:

• Mom: Window Swap
• Julie: Bob Ross Black Gesso

And finally, in case you’re wondering, she got the house!

Thanks for stopping by!