In this post I will explain the basic steps of making linocuts at home without a press. I love the craft of linoleum printing and I hope you will tempted to try it as well.

A few weeks ago Open Press-owner Brian Kyle (@bkmms) shared his most recent printmaking experience ...

Reduction Printmaking: In relief printing, a reduction print is a multicolor print in which the separate colors are printed from the same block. Usually, the lightest color is printed first and then the block is "reduced" by carving away certain areas to prepare the plate for the next color. The disadvantage of reduction printmaking is that once the print is complete, the process cannot be duplicated. The linocut is a printmaking technique similar to that of the woodcut, the difference bei

Build a Printmaking Press!: Have you ever wanted to get a press for making block prints, searched online, saw the multi thousand dollar price tag and dejectedly said: "dang nevermind"? This is exactly what went through my mind as I looked for presses online. I make a decent am…

Photos of the step by step process to make a silk aquatint from a plexiglass plate, silk screen polyester and acrylic paint.

When I tell people I'm a printmaker, it's often followed by the question, "What's that?" My short and sweet answer is that it's playing with big stamps. In truth, it's so much more than that. When you start learning about prints, the jargon, techniques, and terms can be overwhelming—photogravure, pochoir, serigraph, mezzotint, collagraph, linocut. And that's just scratching the surface (pun intended, for all you fellow printers). But when you break it down, all of these fancy names and techniques fall into just a few categories. There are four main categories for traditional printmaking: relief, intaglio, lithography, screenprint. I would say that digital printing is the modern fifth category as well. I'm not sure where this image originated, but I love how concisely it visually represents these four categories. If you would like to learn more about how all of this printmaking business works, MoMA has a super interactive guide that walks you through the basics for each process.

Chris Wormell created a series of illustrations for John Dewar and Sons Scotch Whiskey for their fun series of videos, "Speaking Scotribbean."

Meet The Maker: John Bloor John Bloor is a graphic designer and illustrator who turned his hand to printmaking and in doing so discovered its therapeutic properties and an unexpected ability to still the mind and

Can you believe we only have 8 days of school left? Where did this year go? Looking back on all of the projects that we completed, I am very pleased with the quality and quantity of work that my students produced. I truly believe that I have the most talented, wonderfully amazing students in the world! While looking back over all of the projects, I was shocked and a little upset with myself that we didn't do printmaking this year. While in college, I LOVED printmaking. I even did an independent study in it and my entire senior art exhibition was printmaking. We did printmaking in 7th grade last year but I wanted to kick it up a notch this year and make it a bit more challenging. I decided to try reduction printmaking! For this project, I took a picture of the students and used paint.net to posterize the photos into 3 colors (black, grey and white). Students shaded on the back and transferred all of their white areas onto the linoleum. We use easy carve linoleum at school and it's so easy for the kids. We haven't had any slips (or bad cuts) this year! Students used the gauge to carve away all of the areas of their print that would be left white. Since we were printing on white paper, we didn't need to print this part. All that would be left would be the grey and black areas. They chose a color and mixed it with some white to make a tint. Then students pulled a proof. A proof is a practice print so they can see what it would look like. If they were happy with their proof, they could pull 10 or more quality prints. The students discussed what made a quality print and here is their list... enough ink, no white spots linoleum carved away where it was meant to be carved away (no stray marks) Ink has an orange peel texture No finger prints No smudges (where the paper slipped on the plate) After they printed 10 or more quality prints, they had to carve away all of the grey area, leaving only the black areas to print. They then mixed a shade of ink and printed on top of their first prints. Here is the final result

Here’s a selection of recent prints, including collagraphs, drypoint and monoprints. Take a look at my online shop to see more.

Here's another art history lesson for kids with a simple and easy printmaking art project based on Paul Klee.

Limited edition lino print of the end of the day at Portscatho harbour. Limited edition of 100. Printed onto the finest Somerset paper using Ironbridge Printmakers Lugger Blue Ink (a Lino Lord colour) Paper size approx 22.5" x 15" & Print size approx 21" x 14" All carved, printed, signed and editioned by myself.

Printing techniques up until the Victorian age were mainly based around the use of individual font families arranged in a case & pressed straight to the page. Lithography introduced the proces…

Ever wondered how to print a colour photo with screenprinting??? I've been asked about it a lot lately so thought I'd post som...

Essentially, celebrities (or the stylists who dress them) are the original trendsetters. Many beauty and fashion trends are often inspired by megastars rocking their hawt-est looks. And, well, the rest of us are just copycats, or, in social media terms, followers. However, while the world is copying everything they do, there's something that is entirely theirs and is often hidden under their garments. And that is celebrity tattoos.

Linocut can create a host of visually striking and memorable images that will leave an impression. Here's a deep dive into everything you need to know about this relief printing technique.

Instead of going to the print shop I just make more. .

Adding other media to your monotype ghost prints can push or pull the values and details towards just the right arrangement to make your prints stronger.