I only just signed up, so I've been adding work all evening - the most recent uploads are some of the work I've done this year at uni.

i like your gallery. keep it up!

nice silk screen works!

Thanks! Now that I seem to have found my niche in printmaking I'm so much happier with my work - a lot of it has just been experimentation, but experientation is one of the most important things an artist can do, in my opinion. Producing finished pieces all the time is over-rated

Something I should mention... All photographs are unaltered, unless otherwise stated

How hard is it to cut things into Lino? And do you cut out the negative or the positive?

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The line between genius and insanity is measured only in success.

No great artist ever sees things as they are. If he did he would cease to be an artist. -Oscar Wild

It depends what sort of lino you have. I tend to use double sided Japanese vinyl because it cuts really easily, but if you have a heat plate of some sort the normal grey-ish lino that's quite commonly found in art shops is easy if you have lino cutting tools (alternatively, if you're careful, it's possible to use a scalpel to cut two angled lines into the lino and lift out the strip to make lines).

As for what you cut out, it depends what you're doing. If you're making a picture with white lines on it (like this, you would cut out of the lino the areas that you want to stay white (assuming you are using white paper), then put whatever colour ink you want on the bits of the lino that are still raised.

If you're doing something like this, with two or more colours, you would cut away all the areas you wanted to keep white first, and then ink up the lino with the lightest colour of ink you are going to use. When you've done that layer of ink and the print is dry, you can add your next layer of colour to the paper. To do this you would cut away more of the lino, this time cutting out the areas that you want to keep as the lightest colour (in the example, that would be the yellow areas) and then print the darker colour over the light colour.

The general rule is that you cut the image out in positive, i.e. the areas left raised will be the parts that the colour will go.

I hope that makes sense - I'm a bit rubbish at explaining things without being able to show someone at the same time!

Thank you very much for the detailed explanation. You did it quite clearly. I have done some screen printing and want to combine the technique with lino. But I would be doing it on fabric, have you done lino on fabric? I'm not sure how well the ink/dye would transcribe. I am looking to get sharp edges with good detail

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The line between genius and insanity is measured only in success.

No great artist ever sees things as they are. If he did he would cease to be an artist. -Oscar Wild

Glad I could be of help (hopefully, anyway!). Yeah, I have done lino on fabric - I've found that using it on a fairly close weave, i.e. not very textured, fabric worked best, but to be honest I haven't experimented with that very much. In my experience using oil based inks gave a clean line, but I'm not sure about waterbased.

nice gallery

so many interesting images

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It is dangerous to be right when those in power are wrong - voltaire

Thanks for the

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