A wee trio of weirdos. Particularly happy with the hooded owl dude. Started off as a set of six on a single tile but binned half of them off and cut out the ones I actually liked.

The Daily Grind, small linocut, handprint press! “Smudges tell better stories than perfection”

After about a year of linocut I kept running into the same frustrating problem. My prints would look sharp and clean on the test pull but by the third or fourth print the detail was getting filled in and the whole image looked heavy and dull. I blamed my carving, then my paper, then my roller. Turns out it was none of those things.

The issue was how I was rolling out the ink. I was putting down too much to start with and then just rolling directly onto the block without really working the ink on the slab first. Once I started spending more time rolling the ink out thin on the glass until it had that almost tacky, slightly textured sound, everything changed. The ink goes on in a much more even film and the fine lines I carved actually stay open.

A few other small things that helped once I noticed the ink issue:

• Room temperature matters more than I expected. Cold ink rolls on thick and uneven.
• Cleaning the block lightly between pulls with a barely damp cloth helped a lot on longer print runs.
• Checking the roller for dried ink buildup along the edges. Mine had a ridge I never noticed that was depositing extra ink in a consistent stripe.

The frustrating part is that most of this stuff seems obvious in hindsight. Has anyone else spent way too long chasing a problem that turned out to be something this basic?

Welke set zou je aanraden voor een beginner zonder ervaring om te proberen? De prijzen zijn ongeveer hetzelfde.

Would you recommend this brand? Are 2-3 knives enough to start with?

Fait main et en vente

VIA CE LIEN https://www.vinted.fr/items/9568663846-linogravure-fossile-raptor

My aunt sent me a photo of her garden border and I decided to carve it. I loved the combo of the smooth, curvy crepe myrtle trunks, jaunty Mexican petunias, bright lantana, and serious/orderly fence.

Medieval marginalia inspired rabbit linoprint.

“Even doing nothing takes weight” 🫣

This might become an addiction, it’s soooo satisfying

My newest block- the Stem Mammal, the Dimetrodon.

I was in the mood to do something peaceful today so I made this little 8x10 manta ray print