Linocut printmaking: what materials to get started?
If you would like to create your first print, here are my tips and tricks to help you have fun without breaking the bank… You would like...
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Follow here my artistic journey and discover with me all the treasures of printmaking. Find here informations, tips and tricks and pictures of the process of creating original linocut prints; recent news about exhibitions; articles about inspirational printmakers... Do not hesitate to tell me what you think and ask as many questions as you like!
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- Mar 10
- 1 min
Many constraints and a lot of freedom...
Multi-block printing: precision and creativity In the series of answers to your frequent questions, after the rainbow roll, I propose...
- Jan 31
- 1 min
A rainbow on your roller!
Or how to print multiple colours in one press run... That's it! You have created your first print during a workshop and caught the...
- Oct 3, 2022
- 2 min
Do you have to know how to draw to learn printmaking?
Get your confidence back, you can enjoy yourself and make beautiful prints without having an impeccable drawing technique!
- Jul 3, 2022
- 2 min
What can we learn from the signature of an original print ?
Under the print, written with a pencil, there are three spaces with many informations...
- May 16, 2022
- 3 min
Playing with different kinds of printmaking inks
A little printing experiment to evoke the sparkle of the trees lit by the moon at night In a recent article we saw how a different colour...
- Apr 17, 2022
- 2 min
From day to night and from spring to autumn…
Multi-plates lino printing, an easy way to vary the atmosphere of a print by changing the colour if the ink while printing... When we...
- Oct 15, 2021
- 1 min
From sketch to print, the journey of 'retour de plage'
A four colours linocut reduction print While on holiday,I like nothing more than sketching en plein air… What better way to accurately...
- Aug 17, 2021
- 2 min
Printmaking is a game: jigsaw printing
See how to print different colors one next to another with clean edges thanks to the jigsaw printing technique! I recently submitted this...
- Jul 31, 2021
- 2 min
Is it raining? Head to the kitchen
And transform the colours of your cyanotypes! It still is summertime, officially. However, the sun is playing hide and seek… What to to...
- Jul 11, 2021
- 2 min
Summertime! Printing with the sun: making cyanotypes
… and collecting inspiration for your next lino prints A cyanotype is a picture obtained by photographic printing process which was...
- May 5, 2021
- 3 min
The printmaker and the taste for risk taking : the reduction printing process
Making a reduction print requires to gradually destroy the block (wood, lino) each time a new color is to be printed. There is no way to...
- Apr 7, 2021
- 1 min
The process of relief printmaking: to see the world upside down?
The process to make an engraving implies inking a carved bock which will then be pressed to reveal the design. Discover it step by step...
- Apr 6, 2021
- 3 min
The art of engraving, a pleasure for the eye and for the touch
A print is made to be admired. Do you know that making a print is also a joy for the other senses ? Usually during the open studios as a...
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