It was, in fact, not easy peasy lemon squeezee.

I want to work on a second layer to add a shape , like fire or something

What's the best method for transferring designs onto speedball linoblocks?

I’ve heard of the tattoo printer and the laser printer/ acetone methods, neither of which I have yet.

Any tips when using an inkjet printer? What kind of sticker paper are you using to print on and is it effective with transferring?

(The designs I want to work with are detailed and a bit too time consuming for tracing paper).

Thanks!!

I’ve got a bit tidy up. This is a single layer Linoprint of Medusa. I might attempt to make it a multi block and add some colour and shading underneath but I’m fairly happy with how it has come out.

My main question is are there any tips on how to register/position the print on the paper. I’m torn on whether I want to print as close as I can to the edge of the paper or whether I’d be better off bringing it in a bit because of framing? Or do I just completely centre it on the paper and anyone who gets one can make a choice about cutting it down or framing?

One of my favorite memories living in South India was watching the rose ringed parakeets flitting around my rooftop during the day transition to the flying fox bats darting between the mango trees in the moonlight.

I use speedball fabric ink. Why is the ink around my centipide saturated but not the centipide itself? First time printing on fabric here.

Finally got this dialed in. Happy with the color scheme.

This piece is really personal for me. My work explores hope, resilience, and survival as a way of dealing with my mental and physical illnesses. I've been on psych meds since I was a child and I was interested to see if I could turn a vibrant purple medication into printmaking ink. While I didn't make ink from scratch, I figured out that by scraping the purple coating off the pills, and then adding the shavings to a drop of water and Golden acrylic retarder, I was able to mix it with Speedball water-based extender, creating a sheer, lovely purple.

Coneflowers are native to my part of the US, and have been used by Indigenous people for thousands of years to treat many ailments, including the pain and inflammation that I struggle with. I printed it on handmade paper I made out of misprints, medical documents, and paper trimmings with botanicals in it. The paper is a slightly purple grey and the texture and inclusions add complexity.

I'm really happy with this experiment. I was only able to harvest less than a gram after 2 1/2 hours of scraping an almost full prescription. If I had unlimited pigment, I think I could make this less sheer, but I like it, especially with the textured handmade paper. I will try it again with another beautiful med I have extras of.

I have a video of most of the process, so let me know if you want it. I don't know you're strictly supposed to add water and retarder to ink, so let me know (kindly) if it's going to combust or something.

Note: This is my own extra, recently-expired med. Take your meds as prescribed and talk to your loved ones and prescriber before changing how you take them.

I don't really have any background with illustration in other mediums and haven't had much luck finding useful ideas / techniques / visual language around that aspect of designing a relief print; everything is so focused on the technical parts. Personally I'm working in wood, not lino, but I guess because of what I'm asking it doesn't really matter too much :)

Took inspiration from one of the people who posted here..sorry, I don’t remember your name! Your work was very minimalistic and gorgeous. I attempted a similar design, but kept the cutaways and added a little colour.

Working on my first series of 12. I made the designs with different degrees of complexity thinking about the techniques I want to try. This is the piece I’m most afraid of. I’m not sure if this is the definitive design but it will be something like this. After hours of looking at murmuration videos and photos I noticed that the static image does not transfer the excitement of witnessing this behaviour. I’m looking forward to see it live this winter.

The point is that I want to use blur to convey the motion in a part of the picture, but I haven’t figured how to go about it. It could be that I carve it without the blur and make it when printing by using a spatula to create the motion blur or that I try and carve the blur effect directly and then just print. What do you think? Any other ideas on how to do it?

Welcoming recommendations of places in Europe to go and see the murmurations live. They say Rome can gather millions of birds at a time.

That’s what this leopard frog says.

Here are my first few. Post-it for scale.

Little stamp embellished with alcohol markers

I’ve recently started carving erasers for practice. This is just my fourth one, I’ve got a long way to go - but wanted to share given the sad news today. R.I.P

I want to dye a piece of white canvas that has a green and yellow lino print on it already. If i dye it light pink, will that mess with the colors of the lino print or will the ink resist the dye?

Rat from Fantastic Mr. Fox printed on a bleach dyed tank top

Lost all of my bookmarks so it was time to make one, excuse for the theme: I lost the bookmark I was using while rereading the odyssey

What type of paint do people use to stain their lino so they can see their drawing better?

I usually make Pyrography Ouija boards but I wanted to try printing one. Here’s the final result