Using a Whetstone! The second exciting instalment on how to maintain linocut carving tools with nice sharpe cutting edges. Sharpening lino cutting tools is an essential little skill that I think it’s…
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I’m asked more and more about linocut carving tips, particularly for sharpening lino cutting tools, and this was something that I myself wondered quite a lot about when I started creating…
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Linocut BooksLinocut JournalLinocut Boy Book – Linocut for artists and designers, by Nick Morley – Review
Nick Morley, aka LinocutBoy, has recently just published his first Linocut book and Draw Cut Ink Press was lucky enough to receive a copy in the post. Linocut books like…
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If you are new to linocutting and want to get ahead with the art form then it’s well worth doing some preliminary linocutting exercises for beginners so you get used…
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To transfer a sketch to lino is a really useful little bit of knowledge. It’s a super simple process as well as long as you have some graphite paper and a…
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Lino printing a colour gradient is a great way to add some interesting colour treatments to your linocut designs. I’m no expert at getting a perfect gradient of inks mixed…
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Like all designers I absolutely love typography, so when I started linocutting I was eager to create myself some linocut letters and numbers to print with. The perfect excuse came…
Some people I meet ask me What is a lino print? So I thought this might help answer that question and personally I’ve always loved a good step by step…
Cleaning a linocut after you’ve used it to print your latest masterpiece is really important if you want to keep all your linocuts like I do for printing another day.…
I love looking at other linocut artists work online, in books and at exhibitions all the time. There is so much amazing work being done and inspiration out there! Draw…