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Happy New Year everyone!  I hope you all had an enjoyable festive season.  Today and next week, I wanted to feature how I created this year's Christmas card.  It is a combined linocut and collograph print of my little girl and terrier inspecting her stocking on Christmas morning. I wanted to go through how I produced this black linocut and... View more

Last week, I described the process behind cutting out the linocut blocks for my two colour print of bumble bees.  You can see my it above, a yellow block followed by a black block, printed onto handmade paper with petals embedded into it.  This week, I'm going to describe the different stages of printing it up. You can see here... View more

Today is a blog post for fellow printmakers! It is about the importance of making use of texture in linocuts, especially if it is a one colour linocut.  Texture adds interest and realism.  You can create texture by using different sized tools. Here are some of my tools here. You can see they have different size cutting grooves. Using a variety of... View more