My first finished linocut prints. I got this beginner block printing set maybe a couple of years ago, but it was a little intimidating and I never went through with making a finished product until now. This is what I wanted to do for last week but I needed to practice more.
I was worried there’d only be one chance to get it right, but actually the right side block didn’t have enough ink and had to be pressed a second time. The alignment was slightly off on the second try though, and the ink coverage still isn’t solid, but it’s close enough.
With so little experience I can’t give a tutorial other than to show a few photos of the process, but there’s a very good tutorial from Catherine Cronin as a pdf link on this page over here.
The first block was used for practicing the cuts, inking it, and figuring out a style. There was a little experimentation with different colors of gouache, but the ink was working out the best so that’s all that was used in the final.
I’m loving seeing the progress of your ‘waterfall’ book, some nice line work going on in these prints – I’m glad you found the pdf useful 🙂
Thanks, and printmaking looks like it’s very interesting so I may try some more things with the three (larger) uncut blocks I still have. 🙂
I like the simplicity. (K)
That’s lovely 🙂