a bit too ambitious. I wanted to make the cover of A Court of Thorns and Roses print for the midnight release party of A Court of Splintered harmony. I was planning to give out prints to the ppl there. Yay or Nay??

I take a free printmaking class for veterans. We have ink, plates, and presses, and about three hours to see what we can come up with. I have arthritis, so I don't do much carving, but I've really enjoyed experimenting with monoprints.

I see the work shared here and I'm blown away by how beautiful, clean, and detailed so many of your prints are. I genuinely admire the skill and patience behind them.

My own work is pretty simple. Mostly just me pushing ink around, playing with colors, trying not to muddy everything, and seeing what happens.

I've realized that my artistic fingerprint just doesn't seem to leave that kind of mark.

I am texture. I am messy. I am rough and visually agitating. I am, and I like it.

I guess there's a little vulnerability in sharing something that looks so different from the work I admire. But there's thought and feeling in what I create, even when it looks chaotic or unfinished.

I'm really happy to be part of a community of such talented people, and I'm proud of what printmaking has helped me discover about myself.

Any thoughts or tips are always welcome!

I am really feeling defeated, I cannot work out what i’m doing wrong with my lino printing process. I think my first problem might be the water based ink i’m using, it dries so fast which means i tend to over ink. But i cannot tell if i’m pressing down too hard or not hard enough. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance ☺️

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I rewatched Heated Rivalry a few weeks ago and it really gripped me hard this time, so I made lino prints! Two layers - a roll on gradient for the sunset, and then a black silhouette of Shane & Ilya on top.

cant really tell wether i like the aqua tint version or not. its my first time doing this technique so i definitely learned some things😅

What do you think of my recent etching? It is two etched colour plates (Verni Mou/ Softground etching) and a monotype for the background colour.

After 4 months, 850 fish carved, and 10 layers of ink, I finally finished “plenty of fish in the sea”! I’m sooo relieved and proud to be done. It was a tough print, and I learned a great deal.

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4 layer reduction

This is a few of my favorites from over 575 of these I made. They are all painted/drawn on Black Rives BFK and then I print from Japanese Vinyl with White Caligo Safewash on a Woodzilla Press, and then sometimes add a bit on top.

I learned a lot making so many of them and never got tired of the process or ran out of ideas.

I’m switching from using the green easy carve stuff to the traditional burlap backed stuff in my classes to help reduce some of the obscene plastic waste my classes produce.

For image transfer, I normally photo copy a kid’s drawing, have then go over the photocopy in 6b pencil, and then have them rub the back of the photocopy to transfer their drawing.

I tried staining the lino with diluted India ink and doing this transfer method today, and the image barely appeared. Even using one of those super toxic transfer marker with a photocopy didn’t take.

Ink stain was fully dry.

If anyone has better stain and transfer methods, I’d love to hear them!

*Title should read stained lino

Title: Pale Horse

Medium : Metal Engraving

Size: 12" x 18"

Below is a metal engraving I worked on for a few months over the summer. I used a burin/graver to engrave the metal. There is no acid etch or dry point. The image is a surreal interpretation of the Pale Horse rider from the Book of Revelation. Influences include vanitas painters, Bosch and Durer.

long time lurker first time poster :)

Second round with tetrapak. This time was a bit blurry. I think is because this tetrapack is harder than the usual (2l juice) and the plastic coat thicker.

This very sweet woman in my small town who knows I do linocut/printmaking, thrifted this thing called a "Cardmaster". Anyone encountered one of these before?? I think it's specifically for postcards.

Drypont on tetrapack, the size is standard side of milk box

I'm kind of hooked y'all. Been wanting to try linocut for years, and finally got myself a starter kit. I'm no artist, so I was happy to figure out a process that makes this accessible to me!

This is the result of my botanical monotype + digital post-production, what do you think?

I recently posted here for alternatives to Speedball ink because it's very expensive here in India. In an effort to look for low cost solutions, I tried screen-printing ink and it worked surprisingly well (in comparison to my previous experience with acrylic paints). Did a bit of printing on paper and a tote bag, super happy with how well it rolled on and printed.

A big disclaimer tho, I used solvent based ink and it slowly dissolves the Lino and the rubber liner on the brayer, clean-up is very very messy and the reducer that is recommended for this ink which I used for cleaning up also dissolves Lino at a much faster pace than the ink itself because of the solvent concentration, so my blocks lost almost all the sharp edges after I was done with printing what you see in the image and clean up.

However, I feel like I'm close. In my next attempt, I'm planning to try water-based screenprinting ink, hoping the consistency and viscosity of that is similar to these solvent based inks. ✌️

trying something new to me and drew this cool design on the stone but etching didnt go so well and the final image is what im working with now…. is there any saving it ?

Hand-printed linocut, finished with colored pencils and gold pen.

This was my first time carving a vinyl type block after getting a small sample in the mail. (I ordered from McClains, who can send you small samples to try materials you haven’t before) Overall I like how it came out and will probably do a little bit more experimenting with it but here were the pros and cons for my own printing style.

Pros:

•Very easy to clean/ don’t have to worry about getting anything wet

•Sharper lines and cuts than rubber blocks

•Smooth and easy to carve and can get a lot of small details

•I felt like it’s a little easier to get a hand pressed (baren) print than regular linoleum (though not as easy as rubber)

•Works well with oil based inks

Cons:

•Every cut needs to end in an upward stroke to cut off the piece from the main block or can sometimes be pulled off with tweezers (it likes to stretch before finally breaking off so it’s not the best method) unlike Lino or rubber where you can flick off or pull it to break it from block. I didn’t realize how much I rely on that while carving until I ran into it on every line in this piece.

•It doesn’t really like my water based inks

•Solid black areas transferred a little patchy but maybe just needed more ink

•The block itself smelled absolutely terrible and I could smell it even from afar, like rubber from a tire but so much worse, it actually gave me a headache but I have heard that others don’t have this problem so maybe my batch just hadn’t had time to air out or something.

As title explains, first time trying multiple colors and blocks. Super fun to do.

I used to make stamps for letter boxing, am getting back into the hobby, and cannot for the life of me remember how to transfer my image to my rubber block. I have an HP inkjet printer. Printing onto wax paper hasn't really worked.

I have acetone and would like to do the transfer with a laser printer, but I don't personally have access to one, and the person who works at office depot and FedEx have been remarkably unhelpful when I ask if my design can be printed using a laser printer.

It's a detailed enough design that I really really don't want to have to trace the whole thing.

So far the best I've found is to print the image, wait 3 minutes for it to dry, slightly wet the paper, and then iron it on with a layer of parchment paper between the iron and paper. But, this is still light and patchy and it tends to melt the paper into the block in some spots.

Am I missing an obvious transfer method? Is there another chain that for sure lets you print using a laser printer? I'm at a loss.