Saturday 14 June 2014

Lino day

Have tried to do some Lino cutting today. This is something I haven't attempted since school, so I am clearly a novice here, ancient as I am! I enjoyed it. I cut the Lino twice so that I had two tones of green with white. It is meant to be those plants that are in hedgerows everywhere at the moment. If Google is to be believed, then they are called; umbelliferae.



6 comments:

  1. Love these! My favourite plant family, so pretty and sculptural. Yours look fab xx

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  2. Thanks lovely, miss p thought they were birds.....back to the drawing board!

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  3. You're so good with colour!

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  4. Thanks sasha, I feel like I know nothing about colour. I got 1 print out of 15 that I thought was ok. Is this normal for printing?

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  5. There's always some mis-printing that occurs, but it does get less as you get more experienced. I would say I average around 70-80%%. It's more difficult when you're printing by hand as there's more that can go wrong. Thinner Japanese papers, however, can increase your success rate. Once I started using thinner papers I was able to produce great prints regularly.

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  6. Thanks sasha, have just seen this. I will get the rice paper out. X

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