Painting, Making and Art Blocking

Physical art and making - woodblocks, painting, flags, banners!

Block Printing

XR Art Blockers have developed these facilities to help you provide prints for your actions !

Block Printing

How to Print

Video guide to effective block printing and caring for woodblocks


Also see video from XR Arts Factory showing flag printing.

Written guide 'How to Print' below

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Block Printing

Flag Making

Artwork and guidance for printing flags.

Video guide to make a XR symbol flag

Video guide to make a quadrant flag

Template Designs for flags

A label to print to put on the flag pole

Click on the image to make full size.

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Block Printing

Woodblock design files

Vector files

Artwork to make blocks can be downloaded from this dropbox folder, which contains the examples below and more

The design files are useful for block makers (laser cutting and 3D printing) who want to create physical woodblocks that can be used to print banners, flags, t-shirts etc.

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Block Printing

Get in touch

General Info: artsxr@gmail.com

Art Factory assets, banners & flags: artblockers@gmail.com

XR Art Blockers on Facebook

Banners

Banners

Banners - printing and painting

Graphics for Banners

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Note: All artwork below is quarter sized

Template for Hand Painted Banners

Making your own banners is often the cheapest and most sustainable way to make banners.

You can download templates to make a selection of banners here (scroll down to 'Hand Painted Banners')

Video for how to make a banner

Watch the video here which includes

Banners

Multi-message velcro banner

How to make a multi-message banner

Did you ever wish you could change the message on your banner? This page shows how to create such a resource.

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Make the banner backdrop

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Create a set of card templates

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Suggest letterset and symbols

And here it is:

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Tips for use

Possible design improvements

Mesh banner (so less problem in wind) or banner fabric strong enough to have wind slits cut in. Find a lighter weight, water resistant material for letters. Find a banner material that could have velcro tramlines stuck on (would be much quicker than the sewing). Banner may need rope through top hem as wet cotton stretches and top hem may sag with extra weight of letters

If you need further information contact us on Mattermost @melclarke or email Mel at hello@xrbath.org.uk

A time-lapse video of the banner in use at the Science Museum

Multi-message banner video

Stencil designs

Making your own stencils

We advise using old wallpaper for stencils. Just lay the printed sheets, in order where appropriate, over the wallpaper and cut through.
This can be done by hand with a craft knife or scalpel, or if available, could be done quickly and easily using a laser cutting machine.

Stencil files to download

Here are a collection of stencil files adapted from the XR Artblockers woodblocks, Paris68 Redux and other rebel artists. Perfect for printing on t-shirts, banners or posters using a roller and acrylic paint - instructions on how to make them are included within.

Rebel Stencil:

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Extinction Symbol:

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Badges

Graphic files that can be used to print and use for badge-making. Print onto A4 (eco-friendly!) sticker paper.

Download the files to print the images below here.

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59mm Roundel Badges

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Paris '68 Redux




Paris '68 Redux reinterprets the work of the “Atelier Poplulaire”. The “AP” were groups of students, union members and everyone coming together (in Paris May, 1968), work-shopping ideas, then voting on which ones to mass produce, printing tons and going straight out to fly post Paris.

For their work check out this mega book: Beauty Is in the Street by Philippe Vermès, Johan Kugelberg.

Unfortunately over 50 years on… SAME SHIT and we’re getting ECOLOGICAL BREAKDOWN coming down on us, the only answer is DISOBEY NOW with beautiful ephemeral art with love and revellion in our hearts.

All you need is thin paper for the posters (chip shop paper), thick paper for cutting stencils and emulsion paint etc… then have a workshop and make tons.

Things you will need

Selection of emulsion paint (see XR colours form the design programme) Recommended paper 275g bread and butter paper.

Stencils

Download and print pdf files to use for this technique.

Hourglass

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Swallow

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Cross Bones

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Empathy, Humility for Life

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Joy Grief Rebel

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Skull

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Ampersand (&)

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All Stencils

All the stencils above and more are collected together in a dropbox folder here

Examples

Lots of example images on this website by #bodypolitic

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