If you’ve already done some simple one colour lino printing, and would now like to experiment with adding more colour, why not try the chine collé technique? It’s really simple to do and can easily be done without a press. In this less-than-3-minute video, I show you how. Let me know how you get on!
A quick lino print that I created to demonstrate the beauty of ‘chatter’ – all those expressive lines that occur as part of the carving process. Some printmakers don’t like them, but I love them and I make a feature of them – see my artwork for more examples! Come and join me on a…
This coming Saturday and Sunday, 15th and 16th July, I will be demonstrating wood block carving at the Georgian Gathering at Beamish Museum. I will be in the Pockerley Old Hall area, cutting some wood blocks based on wood block designs created in the Georgian period by Thomas Bewick. The wood carving in the photo…
My history with lino printing goes back to the early 1990s, when I bought a ‘Make your own rubber stamp’ kit at Make Your Mark in York. Back then I used to make small lino cuts to decorate my envelopes with (I was a huge letter writer and mail artist back then), but I soon…
