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Screen Printing - The Complete Story - Artsper Magazine

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Discover the history and impact of screen printing in art, from ancient stencils to Warhol’s iconic Pop Art silkscreens.

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charcoal drawings/gelli plate/ monoprinting 

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charcoal drawings/gelli plate/ monoprinting 

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reduction cut lino printing tutorial-candle

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reduction cut lino printing tutorial-candle

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Lino printing cuts that you could experient with

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Lino printing cuts that you could experient with

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Explaining the Different Types of Linocut Tools and How to Use Them

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using two blocks of lino to create one portrait

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using two blocks of lino to create one portrait

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LINO PRINTING - Multi Block Colour Portrait Speed Art

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Continued from The Linocut Process - Part 1
Now that we've gone over the basics of making a simple, one-color block print, I'll go over a few techniques for making multi-color linocuts. You can use the reduction method, jigsaw method, or multiple block technique to make prints with more than one color. I sometimes use a couple methods on the same print like on this Lake Tahoe print - A Noble Sheet of Blue Water. However, there's also a relatively easy way artists can add a pop of color to a print using a technique called the rainbow roll, also known as a gradient or blended roll - I'll explain these various options in detail below. I've linked some of my supply and book recommendations below to Amazon and Blick so you can take a closer look and some of them are not available at local stores depending on where you live. Just so you know, if you end up buying something on Amazon or Blick, I'd get a small commission since I'm part of their affiliate program, but feel free to shop elsewhere. You can find more details about this here.

Multi-Block Block Printing Process

As the name of this multi-layer block printing technique implies, each color in the print is made from a different block. So, for example, if you're going to have four colors in your final print, you're going to carve four different blocks. Now there are ways to squeeze more colors into that final image using those four blocks by carefully inking different parts of the block in different colors. Maybe the top half of the block is blue, while the bottom is red. In other words, you might be able to get six colors out of those four blocks.

A challenge of this technique is making sure that each of the blocks are registered (i.e. line up) correctly. This will ensure that each printed layer lines up nicely as the multiple layers stack up as you print them one by one. Printmakers have all different ways to ensure good registration. Personally, I like using a homemade, "L"-shaped wooden registration jig (pictured in this blog post), which helps me lay the paper on the block the exact same way every time. Here's a short video of me printing a two-block relief print. A nice thing about using multiple blocks is that you have more control over the final print because you can test and tweak the blocks and colors before printing the final edition.

Deconstruction and There Seldom is a Single Wave were made with separate blocks for each color.

Reduction Linocut Print Technique

One of my favorite lino cut techniques is the reduction print method, when you use the same linoleum block to print multiple colors. It sort of requires a whole different mindset when making a print so I've broken down all the steps of the reduction print process and teach an online class focusing on this technique.

Jigsaw Linoleum Cut Method

I like this technique to print many colors at one time. Basically, you cut your lino block into pieces, and when it comes time to print, you ink them separately, and reassemble the pieces like a jigsaw. I recently did a blog post about making a big jigsaw linocut print and included some tips.

In the aerial lino print below, titled , I printed both shades of green, as well as the pink, at the same time using multiple blocks. I posted a quick work in progress pic of that step in this Instagram post.

Rainbow Roll Technique

A rainbow roll is also known as a blended or gradient roll. The premise is that you load your brayer (I usually use a 6-inch Speedball brayer) with two or more colors and then roll that onto your carved linoleum block. The simplest version would be a two-color blended roll. You put two dabs of different color inks on your rolling out surface (probably glass). Separate those dabs of ink by a couple inches depending on your width of your brayer. Spread the ink up and down with palette knives and then roll out the ink with your brayer slowly. The ink with spread out on your brayer and will eventually meet in the middle creating a color gradient. I think this quick video I posted showing me inking up a linoleum block with a blended (e.g. rainbow, gradient) roll will help you visualize the process.

I think these are very good general printmaking books. The more contemporary book, The Printmaking Bible, has a much longer linocut section.

These are some recommended books highlighting the work of master relief printmakers:

Artists like Claude Flight, Sybil Andrews and Lill Tschudi had a big impact on the history of linocut. Though this book isn't exclusively about lino printing, it does cover a lot of this influential period. You might see if you can pick up a used copy of this book like I did.

This book is about the related art of Japanese woodblock printing (Mokuhanga). It's illustrated with a wonderful collection of modern woodblock prints.

McClain's Printmaking Supplies is an excellent online source for supplies like ink, paper, blocks and tools. They're my goto source for high-end Japanese carving tools and woodblocks.

Blick Art Materials is a large and dependable retailer of art supplies, including printmaking supplies. I get most of my ink, paper and linoleum blocks here, as well as my etching presses.

Linocut Friends is a large and active Facebook group for linocut artists.

Hida Tool & Hardware sells carving tools and sharpening supplies from its Berkeley, California store.

Over the years, I've written about techniques and tricks for linoleum block printing. Here are a few posts:

Last Updated: April 21, 2022

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Multi-Color Lino Printing and Block Printing Techniques for Artists - Linocut Artist | Boarding All Rows

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Continued from The Linocut Process - Part 1 Now that we've gone over the basics of making a simple, one-color block print, I'll go over a few techniques for making multi-color linocuts. You can use the reduction method, jigsaw method, or multiple block technique to make prints with more than one color.

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Drypoint Printmaking Up Close with Akua Inks

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Jessica Russo Scherr | Artist - Educator

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In 2006, Tavares Strachan FedExed a 4.5-ton block of ice from Alaska to his childhood primary school in Nassau, capital of the Bahamas. It was displayed there in all its frosted glory in a solar-powered glass-panelled freezer. This was a trophy of sorts, from a series of Arctic expeditions the artist had embarked on. Yet his achievement was less a triumph over physical hardships than a challenge to imaginative ones. Strachan was the first Bahamian ever to visit the North Pole. Making a leftfield career move into art hadn't exactly been the norm in the Caribbean country either.

And then he made his next giant leap: training to be a cosmonaut at Star City in Moscow. It was the beginning of a multifaceted body of work that is proving audacious by any standard: exploring, in every sense imaginable, the forces that shape recognition and erasure. The words "We belong here", rendered in neon, recur in his art.

Like with most things, you soon realise there's another story

"The most important medium for me is storytelling," he says from his New York studio, where he's preparing two major London projects. One is part of Entangled Pasts, the Royal Academy's decolonial exhibition; the other is Awakening, a career-spanning blockbuster for the Hayward taking in collage, ceramics, neon, performance and sculpture. "Space training and visiting the North Pole are a way for me to unpack moments in history that are presented in totally one way. Like with most things, you soon realise there's another story."

No limits ... Strachan in the Arctic. Photograph: Courtesy of the artist, photo by Christopher Hoover.

His greatest discovery in the frozen north concerned an African American explorer called Matthew Henson, who accompanied Robert Peary on his Arctic expeditions. Peary is credited with conquering the North Pole, but Henson claimed to have actually been the first in the party to the spot. Overlooked by history, Henson has been a fascination for Strachan, notably in 2013, when the latter became the first artist to represent the Bahamas at the Venice Biennale. Polar Eclipse, his pointedly titled exhibition, included a glass sculpture of the explorer floating and near-invisible in mineral oil, and a choir of Bahamian children singing Inuit songs.

Strachan remembers when he first saw a picture of Henson. "He looked like me," he says. "It was a Eureka! moment. I thought, 'Why hadn't anyone mentioned this to me when I was a child?'" In Nassau, Strachan had attended an English school that followed an English syllabus. His father bought prized leather-bound volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica that told a similarly blinkered version of significant events.

Strachan set about creating his own Encyclopaedia of Invisibility, rooting out the hidden or ignored - everyone from Zheng Yi Sao, the Chinese female pirate, to Rosalind Franklin, the scientist whose work was crucial to the understanding of DNA. "A Pandora's box opened up," he says. "We have way more than what's been recorded." In exhibitions, the work is presented as a huge book, bound in blue leather and displayed under glass.

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'Nowhere has shaped the Caribbean like England' ... Every Tongue Shall Confess, 2019. Photograph: Miho Suzuki/Courtesy of the artist, photo by Miho Suzuki.

Many of the people documented within its pages are found in his collage-like paintings, embellished with diagrams and formulas that add to the sense of obscure knowledge. In 2018, Strachan made a memorial to one of its entries: Robert Henry Lawrence Jr, the first African American astronaut. This took the form of a golden urn-cum-satellite that was blasted into space via a SpaceX rocket. It now orbits Earth. Visitors to his 2020 London show at Marion Goodman gallery were startled by performers in their midst playing Henson and his son, who sang about the complexities of history.

At the Royal Academy in February, Strachan will present a huge bronze sculpture riffing on Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper. A print of the Renaissance masterpiece hung at his grandmother's house, above all the family photos. "I always thought, 'Why are all these Europeans hanging over a family of people from west Africa in the Caribbean?'" His own version explores the transatlantic slave trade via a diverse new lineup of diners, from American abolitionist Harriet Tubman to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the queer black "godmother of rock'n'roll". Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, is Christ and Strachan himself is Judas. Naturally, he takes issue with history's cut and dried verdict on the biblical betrayer. "All of us make mistakes," he says. "Who is not Judas?"

Strachan's attacks on established narratives have a particular urgency in the UK, given that its own colonial history is still excluded from the essential school syllabus. New works at the Hayward will include a "coronation hut", exploring the British royal family and housing a "deep dive" into the history of such ceremonies, reaching right back to humankind's origins in Africa. "What better country to talk about coronations in?" he asks. "Nowhere has shaped the Caribbean like England. When it has such a monopoly on storytelling, it's important to have a counterpoint."

Tavares Strachan's work appears in Entangled Pasts, 1768-Now at the Royal Academy, London, from 3 February to 28 April. Tavares Strachan: Awakening is at the Hayward Gallery, London, from 11 June to 1 September

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The Last Supper recast: artist Tavares Strachan on reimagining Da Vinci's dinner guests

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He replaced Christ with Haile Selassie and took Judas's place himself. The Bahamian's epic artistic revisions, from space to the Arctic, hit Britain in 2024 - and the Royals are in his sights

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Esme Printmaking Process Portfolio and final piece on slide 5/6

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Esme Printmaking Process Portfolio and final piece on slide 5/6

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Defne 2022/23 Printmaking Process portfolio and final piece on slide 5/6  

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Defne 2022/23 Printmaking Process portfolio and final piece on slide 5/6  

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How to make your own folded book/laporello/concertina book

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A commission for restaurant Gran Tivoli in Nolita, New York. An installation of 25 prints in their main dining room. Below is a selection that will be exhibited in A Midsummer’s Night 2019 at China Heights Gallery.

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This is another video from Double Elephant Print Workshop. In this one, Simon Ripley presents three methods of making monoprints.

Do you have a favorite printmaking tutorial? Let us know!

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This is another video from Double Elephant Print Workshop. In this one, Simon Ripley presents three methods of making monoprints. Do you have a favorite printmaking tutorial? Let us know!

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Becoming an Artist: Paula Rego | Tate Kids

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An in-depth essay on her work and life-Paula Rego

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An in-depth essay on her work and life-Paula Rego

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Perhaps the most influential artist of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso may be best known for pioneering Cubism and fracturing the two-dimensional picture plane in order to convey three-dimensional space. Inspired by African and Iberian art, he also contributed to the rise of Surrealism and Expressionism. Picasso's sizable oeuvre grew to include over 20,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures,ceramics, theater sets, and costume designs. He painted his most famous work, Guernica (1937), in response to the Spanish Civil War; the totemic grisaille canvas remains a definitive work of anti-war art. At auction, a number of Picasso's paintings have sold for more than $100 million. The indefatigable artist has been the subject of exhibitions at the world's most prestigious institutions, from the Museum of Modern Art and Centre Pompidou to the Stedelijk Museum and Tate Modern.

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Paula Rego | Little Miss Muffet I; Three Blind Mice I; and Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary I, from Nursery Rhymes (1989) | Artsy

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Perhaps the most influential artist of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso may be best known for pioneering Cubism and fracturing the two-dimensional picture plane in order to convey three-dimensional space. Inspired by African and Iberian art, he also contributed to the rise of Surrealism and Expressionism.

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Long Demonized in Art, Eve Has Become a Pop Culture Icon

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Women have atoned for the sins of the archetypal first woman for millennia. More recently, Eve and her alter ego Lilith have been embraced.

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Morakod, excellent Process Portfolio example

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Morakod, excellent Process Portfolio example

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Shealyn's piece about sex trafficking In Cambodia

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Shealyn's piece about sex trafficking In Cambodia

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Monoprinting - A new method to monoprint - theartproject - the art project chad brown

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STENCIL TUTORIAL - Answering all of your questions!

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Lino Printing on Multiple blocks of lino and printing on top of each other.

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Lino Printing on Multiple blocks of lino and printing on top of each other.

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LINO PRINTING - Multi Block Colour Portrait Speed Art

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Create a new document and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Docs to edit Word files. Free from Google.

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My teacher presentation on Appropriation

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SL Printmaking Template (may need to edit)

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HL Printmaking template (need to edit)

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Inspiration for displaying your final Printmaking Artwork 

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Inspiration for displaying your final Printmaking Artwork 

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MoMA | German Expressionism Themes: Portraits

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MoMA | German Expressionism Themes: Portraits

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German Expressionist Lino Print lesson plan/unit 

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German Expressionist Lino Print lesson plan/unit 

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Better Understanding my own culture mind map prompt sheet Ms Blair

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Better Understanding my own culture mind map prompt sheet Ms Blair

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My pinterest board of HEAPS of printmaking portraits and examples for inspiration.

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My pinterest board of HEAPS of printmaking portraits and examples for inspiration.

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My pinterest board for Screen Printing inspiration

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My pinterest board for Screen Printing inspiration

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Printmaker Bill Fick (www.billfick.com) demonstrates his linoleum print process from beginning to end.

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Lino and many other printamking step by step tutorials

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Lino and many other printamking step by step tutorials

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Printmaking Unit: Lesson 2 Relief Printmaking

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In this lesson you will be creating a relief print using linoleum. First you should decide on what your relief print image will be of. Refer to the ideas you came up with for the first lesson on brainstorming. When visualizing your final relief print you should consider the visual below on positive and negative space.

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Linocuts + Monotypes with Favianna Rodriguez | KQED Arts

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PRINTING TEXTURES FROM TOILET PAPER ROLLS

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PRINTING TEXTURES FROM TOILET PAPER ROLLS

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If there is one thing I have learned by spending a good part of my life creating on a limited budget- it's that you can always use something- ANYTHING to make art and you don't need lots of money or fancy supplies. My favorite place to go "shopping" is in the trash or the recycling bin and I have a bit of an obsession with cardboard rolls. There a so many different ways to use them when working with painted surfaces- here are a few of my favorites.

I ALWAYS have a paper towel towel roll on hand when I am painting lots of layers. I love dipping it in paint and using it as a stamp- it is a really quick and easy way to add circles to your surface.

You can even bend or manipulate the cardboard into simple shapes.

I tend to work fast so I enjoy applying a layer of texture or pattern in my mixed media surfaces quickly. Inspired by my own creation a while back ( see here) I have started using my cardboard rolls to roll on my texture and pattern. I cover the surface with all kinds of everyday things. Bubble wrap makes for great polka dots!

Wrapping string, twine, yarn or just about any fiber is another great way to roll texture onto your surface.

Use scrunched up saran wrap to wrap around a roll, cover in paint and roll onto your surface.

Or tightly wrap saran wrap around the cardboard roll and then paint designs all over it. While the paint is still wet, roll it onto your surface.

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If there is one thing I have learned by spending a good part of my life creating on a limited budget- it's that you can always use something...

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My pinterest board for Printmaking tutorials HOW-TO-D.I.Y 

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My pinterest board for Printmaking tutorials HOW-TO-D.I.Y 

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Printmaker Bill Fick (www.billfick.com) demonstrates his linoleum print process from beginning to end.

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The Meaning of Appropriation in Art | Art Terms | LittleArtTalks

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Dry point etching, student examples and combining geometric shapes

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Dry point etching, student examples and combining geometric shapes