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Welcome to DA! Like your Goblin picture!!
Thank you for the welcome! I will be uploading more pictures today and over the next few days.....
Consider me your fan- the sort of work your doing has always been one of my favorite artistic genres to view- and yours is so unique! Rock on!
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Slowly catching up...
Listen to my band's music! The safety of your eternal soul depends on it!---> [link]
My YouTube account- original animations and music here [link]
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Slowly catching up...
Listen to my band's music! The safety of your eternal soul depends on it!---> [link]
My YouTube account- original animations and music here [link]
Thank you for the feedback! Much appreciated....
Thank you for your nice comments. Other than Edward Gorey (a huge influence), few people that I had seen were creating images that were of the kind that were in my mind, so I became compelled to start putting them down...
I like you style- that sounds tremendously cheesy but I mean it in the most traditional sense, baby. no ops I mean they look like woodcuts! You have you own thing!
Make more.
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Be ye not the feeders nor the food.
Make more.
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Be ye not the feeders nor the food.
Thank you for the encouraging feedback. I will be making more. There's a woodcut artist from the 1930s named Lynd Ward who did these incredible wordless proto-graphic novels. His work has been a big influence. That, and also the scratchboards of Eric Drooker. But then again, Eric Drooker was influenced by Lynd Ward....
I will look those folks up- thanks for sharing!
I'm going to watch you.
I actually just got an old lino cutting kit from my Dad and I'm going to try some lino prints myself (for fun- I have no delusions of grandeur).
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Be ye not the feeders nor the food.
I'm going to watch you.
I actually just got an old lino cutting kit from my Dad and I'm going to try some lino prints myself (for fun- I have no delusions of grandeur).
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Be ye not the feeders nor the food.
I began making linocuts in October myself. A few things I found along the way:
- Best prints came from one inking per print. Ink, print, wash; ink, print, wash. Like that.
- It's better (at least for me) to start with non-water proof ink than waterproof ink. The waterproof ink needs to be cleaned off the linoblocks with paint thinner / paint thinner, as opposed to mere rinse under faucet.
- Once ink is rolled onto the block and used for printing, I could not re-ink the block without ink seeping into the thin cuts and printing black where it should be white.
- I underestimated how much pressure was required to transfer ink from block to paper to make a clean print.
- My first linocut (6 x 8 inches) required lots of pressure, and the areas that needed to be black would have white, grainy blotches.
- I switched to 3 x 4 inch linoblocks and could concentrate more pressure into a smaller space, increasing print quality (all of the printing, by the way, was done by hand with a roller / baren).
- The best results will come (of course) from a printing press, but a "small hand printing press" is harder to come by than I expected. I found an affordable one for sale at madisonartshop.com I will have to look into this as I have not yet tried it....
- I was putting so much hand-pressure on the block for printing I was breaking the table (moved the materials to the floor and got better results).
- Given a choice between pressing down on an inked block which lies on top of the paper/would-be print vs. putting inked block down, setting paper on top of that, and pressing baren / roller down on paper to ink, I got better results doing the latter.
- Edges were easy to miss / hard to print without extra special attention.
- I found I was under-estimating how much detail can go into a "small," 3 x 4 inch space when it came to cutting.
- Non-sharp linocutting blades do not cut so much as tear the linoleum.
- Carving rubber stamps actually is a good way to practice linocutting. The pink stamp material, the Speedball "Speedy Stamp" is better material than the gray as the gray stamp material crumbles and the pink does not.
- With pink rubber-stamps you can't bet the fine detail that one can with linoleum, but it is easy to cut and transfers the ink from the stamp the paper easier than from linoleum to paper.
- Actually, a good book for beginning linocutters is "Rubber Stamp Carving" from the The Weekend Crafters series, by Luann Udel. The cutting materials and techniques for rubber stamp cutting are (almost) all the same as for linocutting.
- Wood-mounted linoleum is a bit more expensive, but never the less easier to work with than non-mounted linoleum.
- I personally got ideas, inspiration, from artists I found on the internet, such as Eli Jacobi and Peggy Woods. Another one was an artist from Mexico, Artemio Rodriguez.
Just a few ideas. Hope it helps, and good luck...
- Best prints came from one inking per print. Ink, print, wash; ink, print, wash. Like that.
- It's better (at least for me) to start with non-water proof ink than waterproof ink. The waterproof ink needs to be cleaned off the linoblocks with paint thinner / paint thinner, as opposed to mere rinse under faucet.
- Once ink is rolled onto the block and used for printing, I could not re-ink the block without ink seeping into the thin cuts and printing black where it should be white.
- I underestimated how much pressure was required to transfer ink from block to paper to make a clean print.
- My first linocut (6 x 8 inches) required lots of pressure, and the areas that needed to be black would have white, grainy blotches.
- I switched to 3 x 4 inch linoblocks and could concentrate more pressure into a smaller space, increasing print quality (all of the printing, by the way, was done by hand with a roller / baren).
- The best results will come (of course) from a printing press, but a "small hand printing press" is harder to come by than I expected. I found an affordable one for sale at madisonartshop.com I will have to look into this as I have not yet tried it....
- I was putting so much hand-pressure on the block for printing I was breaking the table (moved the materials to the floor and got better results).
- Given a choice between pressing down on an inked block which lies on top of the paper/would-be print vs. putting inked block down, setting paper on top of that, and pressing baren / roller down on paper to ink, I got better results doing the latter.
- Edges were easy to miss / hard to print without extra special attention.
- I found I was under-estimating how much detail can go into a "small," 3 x 4 inch space when it came to cutting.
- Non-sharp linocutting blades do not cut so much as tear the linoleum.
- Carving rubber stamps actually is a good way to practice linocutting. The pink stamp material, the Speedball "Speedy Stamp" is better material than the gray as the gray stamp material crumbles and the pink does not.
- With pink rubber-stamps you can't bet the fine detail that one can with linoleum, but it is easy to cut and transfers the ink from the stamp the paper easier than from linoleum to paper.
- Actually, a good book for beginning linocutters is "Rubber Stamp Carving" from the The Weekend Crafters series, by Luann Udel. The cutting materials and techniques for rubber stamp cutting are (almost) all the same as for linocutting.
- Wood-mounted linoleum is a bit more expensive, but never the less easier to work with than non-mounted linoleum.
- I personally got ideas, inspiration, from artists I found on the internet, such as Eli Jacobi and Peggy Woods. Another one was an artist from Mexico, Artemio Rodriguez.
Just a few ideas. Hope it helps, and good luck...
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