From complete beginners to fabulous lino printers in just one day. I had a great day teaching a mum and daughter how to carve and print lino in my studio today. They came for a private workshop to celebrate a birthday. We started right from the very beginning, going over tools and materials, then…
I spent another lovely afternoon with a local art group, taking them on their next step in their lino printing journey. Earlier in the year I showed them how to do simple lino printing and some gradient printing, and today we moved on to chine collé lino printing, using collage to create colour. Lots of…
I had a great day back at Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert yesterday, showing everyone how to make lino printed tote bags. Everyone carved out their own lino block and then we got printing with fabric inks. Using sponges to apply the inks to the lino blocks rather than a brayer, meant that variegated, autumnal…
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 series of autumnal lino prints of a sycamore leaf found in my garden. They are printed using the chine collé technique, where collage paper is used to create the background colour. I also created the collage papers using a mono printing technique. It’s a really lovely technique for adding colour to lino printing, and…
This morning was my final session with a local community support group, where we put together everything we’d learned over the past two weeks to make accordion note books. The covers were decorated with acrylic paints, then everyone carved a simple lino carved stamp to add extra details to the covers. Some decided to add…
A lovely class today with a small local community group who did simple white line lino carving. They experimented with plain printing, gradient printing and some even had a go at adding a bit of collage to their prints. As you can see from the photos, they all took to it really well. Thanks so…
Shown above are a selection of the beautiful chine collé lino prints that were made on my workshop on Saturday at Gleaston Village Hall. Ten out of the twelve participants hadn’t done any lino carving or printing before and just look at what fabulous pieces they created! Have a scroll through the gallery carousel to…
On Monday I taught a lovely art group who meet just around the corner from me in Annfield Plain. I showed everyone how to do simple white line lino carving and then how to print out their carvings using both plain and gradient colours. As you can see from the photos, they all took to…
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…
Two beautiful bags made on yesterday’s private lino printing on fabric workshop. I love how the friends both took different approaches to their bag designs and that the ideas evolved as they carved the lino and printed up test pieces. Beautiful work!
I had a really lovely afternoon at Penruddock Village Hall on Saturday, leading a lino printed Christmas card workshop as part of Highlights Rural. The Christmas tunes were playing and everyone was humming and singing along as they carved and then printed their cards. There was such a great atmosphere, and everyone experimented with the process,…
