I’m a bit behind on posting, but I’m still working on linocuts and drawing. This was my first attempt with letters and my first try at creating a particular color by blending ink colors. It’s based on a piece of pottery that my mother-in-law had. As you can see in the first picture, I printed […]
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Finally got around to test prints with these older carvings. I’m still being pretty casual with the prints. My pressing workflow is limited to rubbing the back of the linoleum with the bottom of a jelly jar and my ink is rolled out on a piece of tinfoil. It is interesting how much more clearly […]
Unlike Remo Williams, I continue to honor my promises and produce sequels. While I haven’t actually printed anything recently, I have been doing more work in the realm of linocuts. In the real of practicing what I preach, here are many things that are not where I’d like them but are part of the process […]
I’m still very much in the try-things-and-see-what-happens stage. I can sense a few mysteries lurking that are key to doing what I want. For carving, I have switched from the soft pink rubber stuff to the hard battleship gray linoleum. It is much harder to cut but makes a world of difference in detail and […]
The Internet still works pretty well for me.1 It brought me some examples of linocuts that got me interested in something I haven’t done since 7th grade. I went on my normal pattern of following a bunch of people who do this on Instagram2, watching a random assortment of YouTube videos (from tutorials to documentaries) […]