lino prints 

what is lino printing ?

lino printing is a print making technique .A design is cut into the Lino surface with a sharp knife, V-shaped chisel or gouge, with the raised areas representing a  mirror image of the parts to show printed. The Lino sheet is inked with a roller, and then pressed onto paper or fabric. This can be done by hand or with press. Lino printing in this case is no foreign word but a very well known one that has been locked away in my head for future safe keeping .To tell the truth lino printing has never been my forte but, never the less i'm rather proud of the outcomes. I decided to stick with warmer , more autumnal colours ( reds , yellows and oranges ) one thing i wish i could do again, if i could go back to this day would be to step out of my comfort zone , possibly use a range of colours (even though i used blue) as i think this would of shown more confidence and interest. I would've liked to also add more cuttings onto the lino to show that i understand and know how to add on more shape onto the design . This is something i would not choose to do again if i had a choice but if had no choice in the matter then i would gladly try again, if that meant improving.

Using yellow acrylic paint on the back of the unmarked piece of the lino i placed it onto the paper , giving me a yellow box . After that i used one of my rollers to roll the red ink onto he lino. Once that was done i placed the lino on-top of the yellow square and used a clean roller to roll on top, giving me this orange coloured outcome .

This is not one of my favourites , never the less i have decided to keep it to show my progress. This had the same technique but i have swapped the colours around getting  an opposite effect.

using only red i placed the ink covered lino onto the paper not realising that it had bits of blue on it which created dark splodges (which i think adds to the print) creating this effect.

For both i used red ink and same technique as before .I also used blue ink on one of my prints which did not turn out well and the reason for this was that i didn't use an even amount of ink .