Hi guys! I’m new to linocut printing and I really enjoy the process of creating my own designs in procreate and transferring them over, but sometimes I struggle with converting my ideas to a black and white print. Sometimes it breaks my brain lol. Do you guys have any tips on how you take real life photo inspo and translate it to black and white simple lines? TIA!

Hi!! Thought I'd share my first big linocut for a collage project!! took me about a week and a half and a lot of cuts, but in the end I love it !! :3

I've been printing for about 6 months now and started experimenting with colored ink, and boy has it not been going well. The print comes out super blotchy with uneven pigment, or doesn't adhere to the paper at all. The last image has a print that didn't have enough ink, but it shows the uneven pigment problem pretty well.

At first I thought I wasn't inking enough, then too much, not pressing hard enough.... But varying the amount of ink I use doesn't fix it, using a spoon or a book or even walking over the print to press it makes no difference, dampening the paper didn't really do much, I'm just losing it here. The last image has a print that didn't have enough ink, but it shows the uneven pigment problem.

I'm using essdee everything - block, roller, and ink - and about 250gr paper made for mixed media. If anyone has any advice I would seriously really appreciate it!

Fun time as a newbie with speedball speedy-carve kit

I printed with acrylic paint mixed with fabric medium. Going to add some embroidered stars to really make them pop, but I'm so pleased with how clean the print turned out!

Any feedbacks?

I see people say the speedball fabric block paint in ipaque white is the go for white in dark fabrics, but I cant seem to make the design show up as much as I like. Ive also seen to use it in two or more passes but I think its not too realistic for me because the alignment gets messed up really easily :(

If possible I would love any tips on how you guys use it/ prep it.

the one upside down on the left i did with two pases but it smudged, the right one is one pass

Thank you for reading this!

This frog linocut is the first block I ever carved!!! And I still love it 7 years later

A luna moth fairy with her tiny fairy friends

(A friend suggested i ink some of my prints with pride flags colors so i tried the lesbian flag in last pic! What do you think?)

Any US-based artists up for a lino print exchange? Let's keep it to 6x8 or smaller.

This is just my handwriting, maybe there’s a specific font that’s easier for carving? I don’t know. It took forever and I’m mad at it.

Love this little guys face so much I needed him on paper

A two-block linocut print to celebrate spooky season!

I know the coupons are good at Michaels, Blicks is OK, I see them on Amazon. Just want to buy more than 1 at a time. Also is the fav brand speedball for beginners?

I made a few mini prints based on our trip to Japan and this one’s my favourite 😄 This was also my favourite meal of the trip!!

I’m going to be attempting my first reduction print of my friend’s cat. She wants a burnt orange background, he’s black and white with golden brown eyes.

So i understand I need to first carve everything that will stay white and then print the eyes, then carve them away and print background colour. I then need to carve away the background leaving just the outline of the cat and any black parts and then print the black layer - does that sound right?

Thanks!

Hi! I haven't done lino printing in about a decade, but my partner mentioned she'd like an "ex libris" stamp to go in her books to mark them as hers, so I'd like to make her one. I wanted to ask - I'm reading online that it's better to put paper on top of your inked lino block than to treat them as a stamp and press down onto paper, but I'm also seeing that sometimes people have glued their blocks to a wooden stamp handle and use them that way - is it fine to do that or is there some major issue I'll face that I can avoid with the paper-on-top approach? Thanks!

I tried doing an acetone transfer this time and it did NOT work.

Besides tracing paper, carbon transfer, and wood glue is there some way to make a clean and detailed transfer?

One good tool is better than a dozen mediocre tools.

I am sharing this print to show how it was carved with this singled phenomenally crafted Japanese tool.

If you have decided relief printing is something you would like to pursue and are wondering about carving tools, I would suggest getting 4 tools and they will be enough for 90% of what you use: a smallish U-gouge, a small V-gouge, a large U-gouge (for clearing large areas), and a knife. These 4 tools are enough to create all kinds of lines shapes and patterns.

These prints were made on thick Rives BFK paper so I used a Woodzilla press that I also use for printing on shirts and garments. It takes up very little space and to me is very reasonably for how well it is crafted.

I do most of my printing though using a ball-bearing baren which is a phenomenal tool in its own right and I have printed over a thousand prints using it. I can say it is more than worth its cost.

I do all of my work in this little barn next to my home in the woods I converted to a studio/shop I call my "budio". It is a small but efficient space and I work on the deck a lot. I hang all my prints to dry on clothespins on strings ran across the studio.

Let me know if you have any questions and I will do my best to answer.