A step-by-step guide on how to create personal and contemporary linocut prints. A linocut is a relief print created by carving a design into a printing block. It is the uncut surface, not the carved away areas, that gives you your image when you roll it with ink, lay paper on top then apply pressure to produce a print. With 18 easy-to-follow projects that can be adapted to suit your own ideas, experienced printmaker Sam Marshall guides you through the whole process – from the drawing to the carving to the inking to the printing – of creating your own beautiful prints and handmade cards whether you are working from your kitchen table or a more advanced studio set-up. By taking inspiration from everyday life, Sam helps you to build your confidence with observational drawing. Featuring step-by-step projects, the book demonstrates a range of skills with low-cost materials to produce simple linocuts, reduction linocuts and colourful multi-block prints. You will also learn more experimental techniques such as combining monoprint, chine collé, jigsaw linocuts and rainbow rolls and pick up handy tips on subjects such as 'noise' and editioning your prints. Beautifully illustrated with photographs of Sam's own drawings and linocuts, and featuring the work of 5 talented printmakers, Linocut is an essential guide to linocut printmaking. Packed with creative and practical advice to guide and encourage you, whether you're just starting out, returning to the craft or looking to expand your printmaking skills.
Author(s): Sam Marshall
Edition: 1
Publisher: Herbert Press | Bloomsbury Publishing
Year: 2023
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 177
Tags: Printmaking: Linocut; Linoleum Block-Printing Technique
Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
About This Book
1. What is Linocut?
The History of Linocutting
How it is Used Today
2. Tools And Materials
Linocut Tools
Lino
Ink
Ink Rollers
Paper
Hand Printing Tools
Small Presses
Inking Slab
Sketchbooks
Other Bits and Bobs
3. Preparing Your Workspace
Drawing and Cutting Area
Printing Area
Drying Area
Storage Area for Materials and Prints
4. From Image To Block
Drawing Directly Onto the Block
Tracing Your Drawing the Traditional Way
Tracing Directly from the Drawing
Using Carbon Paper to Transfer Your Drawing
An Interview with Cally Conway
5. Mark Making
Holding Your Tools
Using Your Tools Safely
Mark-making Warm-up
6. Cleaning Up
Oil-based Water-soluble Inks
7. Carving Lino
One Image Four Ways
An Interview with Harriet Popham
8. Registration
Super-simple Registration
Paper Template Registration
Registration Board
Ternes Burton Clips
9. Simple Linocuts
Black-and-white Print
Adding Colour to Your Linocut
10. Noise
Red Kites
11. Out In The Garden
A Nature Study
Tips on Drawing Outside or In Public
12. Editioning Prints
Edition Size
Pricing
How to Edition
Numbering and Signing Limited-edition Prints
13. A Weekend Away
Holiday Memory Print
An Interview with Izzy Williamson
14. Reduction Linocut
A Practical Object
15. Multi-Block Prints
Key Block Method
Four-block Print
An Interview with Meg Justice
16. Displaying Multiple Prints
Concertina Book
17. Experimental Printmaking
Combining Monoprint and Linocut
Repurposing Old Blocks
Linocut and Chine Collé
Jigsaw Linocut
Rainbow Roll
18. Making Linocut Cards
Single-block Card
Two-block Card
An Interview with Tristan Sherwood
19. Bringing It All Together
A Large Linocut
20. Next Steps In Printmaking
Relief Techniques
Intaglio Printmaking
Other Printing Techniques
Conclusion
Practical Tips When Things Aren’t Going ‘Right’
Setting Up a Regular Practice
Advice for When You Are Lacking in Motivation
Call Yourself an Artist
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