Lino Printing - The First Lino Print (Part 2)

A Quick Update - After the looking over my prints when they had dried I decided that I needed to do something about the white background. As I mentioned in some earlier posts I felt the background looked very bare. It was too late to change the background as the lino block had already been cut. So I decided to purchase some black paper and to do some more first prints. I'm not sure if applying paint again and doing more prints will degrade the lino block but I decided to give it a go.

Here is a picture of the lino block and the first print on black paper -



I did a few more prints on the black paper which I think they have worked out pretty well. It look much better than the black background.



Now I'm thinking that maybe I should have experimented with a few more colors instead of yellow!

Lino Cutting - First Post

Its been 10 years since I did lino printing at school. I've decided to give it a go now. I found a few websites that describe the process. I expected there would be more information and tutorials available on the Internet but this does not appear to be the case. Here are the best sites that I found:

Link Print - Tutorial
This tutorial gives a good introduction to lino printing using one colour.

Moongold Visuals - Lino Cutting
This site details the tools needed and the steps involved but in allot more detail.

After reading these two sites I decided I'd start a blog to record my attempts at lino printing.