Linocut – Page 6 – berry daines

Yule

December 8, 2016December 13, 2016 berrydaines3 Comments

It’s easier to ink up in two colours than to cut separate blocks, I thought…

Next I cut the shapes, leaving a little bit to peg them up by

Printing the backs. A piece of baking paper is useful if some of the first side isn’t fully dry.

Paper robins displayed in a window. — Update: Paper robins flying in a rainy window.

Yr Atom

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In December 2016, the Welsh Art Therapists group got together for a day out in Carmarthen. They booked a room to make some lino prints at Yr Atom, a Welsh cultural centre which is based at the site of the Carmarthen Journal.

Printing in a newspaper office should be easy, you’d think. Unfortunately the room has been set out for vocal meetings, not for art making. We got around the lack of sink by putting some bowls of water ready for cleaning lino and rollers.

A nice quiet hour of transferring drawings to lino then cutting.

Then some printing. Was that Art Therapy? No.

Sharpening up…

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First, a drawing, which is traced then transferred (using a very hard pencil, draw over the lines to press carbon paper marks) in reverse onto a piece of lino.

Cut the lightest areas first…

Ink it up

Print, then hang up to dry

Cut away the areas to be mid-coloured…

Ink up the block, place the print in exactly the right position and press…

Wonder why you waste so much effort on this nonsense. Realise that print looked better before the second layer of ink was added.

Some of them might be OK, with a bit of editing.

Message in a Bottle

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LinoBottle

Lino almost ready…

Procrastination with a linocut.

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Lino block ready to be cut. — Dare I make the first cut?

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA — Lino block ready for inking

Oblivious

Variable edition. Possibly an edition of 12, with a collection of A/Ps.

1000 Years of Traditional Crafts

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I returned to Lincoln at the end of September 2012, to take part in the Heritage Crafts weekend. The Museum of Lincolnshire Life has a Columbian press. Visitors were very interested by the over-decorated machine, and to see the press in action. My assistant was a Master printer, who used to bring bits of type home. Never let children play with little metal letters, they’ll be addicted forever.

Photographs here: http://flic.kr/s/aHsjCmQghr

Over the two days, it transpired that lots of people have done a little bit of printing at school. They have rarely had an opportunity to have another go.

The most frequently asked question was: “Why place the paper onto the inked block, when it looks easier to print the block face down onto flat paper?”. Answer: Ink seeps down into the engraved lines. Turning the wet block over would result in a splashy inkiness around the edges of the print. Also, any white lines would be filled in – a few hours’ worth of cutting obliterated(!).

We could only think of rubber stamps and potato cuts being printed that way.

Columbian relief press — The Columbian printing press at The Museum of Lincolnshire Life