Linocut: A Creative Guide to Making Beautiful Prints

Linocut is a relief print created by carving a design into a printing block. With 18 easy-to-follow projects, experienced printmaker Sam Marshall guides you through the process of creating your own beautiful prints and handmade cards. The book demonstrates a range of skills with low-cost materials, such as combining monoprint, chine collé, jigsaw linocuts, and rainbow rolls, and offers helpful tips on subjects such as 'noise and editioning your prints'. Beautifully illustrated with photographs of Sam's own drawings and linocuts, Linocut is an essential guide to linocut printmaking.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 176 pages
Publication date: 19 January 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

A linocut is a relief print created by carving a design into a printing block. It is the uncut surface, not the carved away areas, that gives you your image when you roll it with ink, lay paper on top, and apply pressure to produce a print. With 18 easy-to-follow projects that can be adapted to suit your own ideas, experienced printmaker Sam Marshall guides you through the whole process – from the drawing to the carving to the inking to the printing – of creating your own beautiful prints and handmade cards, whether you are working from your kitchen table or a more advanced studio set-up. By taking inspiration from everyday life, Sam helps you to build your confidence with observational drawing. Featuring step-by-step projects, the book demonstrates a range of skills with low-cost materials to produce simple linocuts, reduction linocuts, and colorful multi-block prints. You will also learn more experimental techniques such as combining monoprint, chine collé, jigsaw linocuts, and rainbow rolls, and pick up handy tips on subjects such as 'noise and editioning your prints. Beautifully illustrated with photographs of Sam's own drawings and linocuts, and featuring the work of 5 talented printmakers, Linocut is an essential guide to linocut printmaking. Packed with creative and practical advice to guide and encourage you, whether you're just starting out, returning to the craft, or looking to expand your printmaking skills.

Weight: 730g
Dimension: 422 x 276 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781789940701