#linocuts

[shithowdy]

"Neighborhood Watch"

as a birdwatcher, i registered a certain familiarity with how the entire neighborhood converged with their horns and whistles to drive away the threat. this is definitely a rough piece, but i had to get it out of me.

[msmarymillspaulos]

The Tube Staircase

Cyril Edward Power (1872-1951)

British Artist

Linocut

[itscolossal]

Linocuts by Eduardo Robledo Celebrate Mexican Heritage and Community

[thefugitivesaint]

Eduardo Robledo, 'El Camino', 2023

[artbyrncld]

"butch" heart linocut

available as a print in my shop

[uwmspeccoll]

Another Gale Mueller Feathursday

Here are more relief prints of birds by Spokane, Washington printer and printmaker W. Gale Mueller (1927-2018) from his Forty Years of Birds ‘n Blocks, printed from the original blocks at his Millstone Press in 2009 in an edition of 53 copies. From 1969 to 2009, Mueller and his wife Bonnie sent holiday cards with Gale’s original bird prints using several relief print processes. Today we show some linocuts and an early wood engraving from 1982-1993. For those who want to know more about these birds, here you go:

Varied Thrush (Ixoreus naevius)

Saw-whet Owl (Aegolius acadicus)

Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia)

Spotted Towhee (Pipilo maculatus)

House Finch (Haemorhous mexicanus)

Our copy of this book is a gift from our friend Tony Drehfal.

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[zinocuts]

𝙸 𝚊𝚖 𝚗𝚘 𝚖𝚊𝚗! November 05, 2024 at 03:37PM via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/DB_ke7Io19l/

[adragonsoulart-blog]

🪱 Pet & Punk Worms!🪱

Ohhhh man I have been DYING to share these online since I made them.

Can get these patches on my shop!

These are my first 2 block prints, I'll explain what that means and how it works below the cut! 🪱

Ok, So, as one would guess two block means the obvious, I have two block that I carved for each. One for the color and one for the line-art.

By now you probably have noticed the little squares on the block. These are what I use to line up the prints!

Originally I was planning on inking the squares and carefully placing tape onto the ink spots so that when it came for the second color I could just line up the blocks with the marks.

Well this was too tedious.

So my next idea was to cut out a peice of cardboard the exact size of the block and just place that as like a template.

That also didn't work well...

What I ultimately ended up settling on was using little thin bits of tape to mark out the edges of those squares and then using them to line up the squares for the next print.

This honestly worked really well.

I'd pre-cut a bunch of little strips and then just go to town printing these :)

Took all the tape off as I was hanging them up to try!

(one little note if you want to try how I did it, you don't need to make the squares so far away. That was originally for my template idea I think...)

In case you are curious about how I made the designs themselves, I just drew a bunch of worms with collars with a marker in my sketch book. Picked my favorites, brought them into Clip Studio Paint for some clean up AND more importantly to line things up. Printed those out. Traced them with a pencil onto tracing paper. Rubbed the graphite from the tracing paper onto the block, and retraced that again before carving it.

I originally wasn't going to make these multicolored blocks but after playing with it digitally my friends encouraged me to do so, thank you ❤️❤️🪱❤️❤️