I’m looking to try out some more exciting paper if anyone has any uk based recommendations.

15x19 2 layer reduction linocut to be included in my BFA show in a couple weeks!

I really like how this turned out! I know it’s not quite straight or centred on the paper but I will cut it to be straight at some point

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 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 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!

And I still am. I just have never spent so much time to have an idea come to fruition. I could see it in my head and the idea was amazing, and it looked really good on the initial sketch. But when I printed the black, it just looked so unfinished. So I took some duralar and enclosed the shapes, which helped immensely. And then I added more lines and shapes to mimic the doodles in the colored shapes and it looks so much better. But now, I’ve got a 3rd block to carve. I know it’ll be worth it, but it seems like a lot of unnecessary effort for some 12x12 prints. 😕

Hi, I’m taking Intaglio printmaking and I ended up messing up the plate by leaving it too long in the acid I suppose. I was wondering if anyone has any tips on fixing it without having to start on a new plate because I don’t think my instructor will give me a new one and he’s very hands off.

I have scraped it a bit but I’m worried about the fact that the plate dips in the hair, torso, and flowers. I have included pictures of how the print originally looked, how it’s coming out now, and the plate itself.

Any advice would be appreciated! TIA

Another tattoo artist's flash style print of another set of odd fellows. Much happier with this one in terms of both line work and layout. I'm particularly happy with the skeleton florist, the walking fish, and the human radish.

I want to make a two part image that is just a one color shape, outlined, and I'm wondering with my materials what is mostly to work out well- two stamps that don't overlap or a silhouette stamp and then an outline stamp on top.