Brian brought the LEGO press he made to
Quelab to make a few LEGO prints:
The LEGO press
has moving parts
The LEGO press
fit in the palms of Brian's hands
Making LEGO prints
The LEGO set-up
Brian used smaller
LEGO dots to make designs on the bigger LEGO plate:
were used to make the images
We made some nice two-colored prints:
Multi-colored LEGO prints
from passes with two different colors
Making the image
We printed this abstract image
The PROCESS
Brian brought Speedball water-based inks to print with:
Brian brought these water-based inks
to print with
Rolling ink on glass
with an anti-skid mesh below
Inking the LEGO plate
Unlike when we use the
Tortilla Press, the paper goes underneath the plate in this LEGO press. Thus Brian turned the press upside down to insert the plate:
Inserting the plate
(when the press was upside down)
Then Brian turned the press over, the right way, and inserted the paper:
Inserting the cardstock paper strip
An extra push with his hand made better prints:
While the levers pressed down,
and extra push helped make better prints
The first print and press
The PRINTS:
The ink would dry
making prints of various densities
We also printed with other colors
The Dollar Tree sold 5x5 inch fake LEGO plates, which we could use to print on our other presses -- including the
ABUSA Adjustable Tortilla Press:
5x5 inch fake gray LEGO plate
from Dollar Tree
The regular LEGO bits
snapped onto the fake LEGO plate
