#art illustration and printmaking

[palaeosinensis]

"Wild Hearts" - Continuing to think in linocut terms and imagining if I had access to silver and gold inks as well. Things like this would have to be REAL big. I find carving relaxing when all the artistic decisions are already made. I wonder if the local arts place would ever have a printmaking class that could walk me through their presses or printing technique...I can carve the blocks themselves just fine.

[howsublime]

Excited to share my first linocut, based on the three meme kittens that I love.

Update: Fancy a t-shirt?

[oliviawhen]

My holiday cards from the past several years! I love making these. It's great to reach the end of the year and make something that doesn't need to be perfect.

[welcome-to-craftyland]

grid collage technique tutorial 🔪

This neat collage technique involves using a ruler and sharp craft knife to evenly slice images and arrange them back together into a grid.

Print out your image, or find a good picture from a magazine to cut out.   

Using a metal ruler and a cutting mat, start cutting out even strips of paper. I eyeball it most of the time, just make sure they’re all about the same thickness. Keep them in order and organized nearby so you don’t get them all jumbled.   

Once they’re all cut out, rearrange the strips however you’d like. Here, I put each strip upside down, but kept them in the original order.   

Using clear tape, tape everything together on the back side, making sure there’s no big gaps or overlapping paper. You can finish it here, or slice and rearrange the whole thing once again like I did for an even wilder effect!

Supplies: - Clear tape - Sharp craft knife - Cork backed metal ruler - Cutting mat - Printed out photo / magazine pic

[megamoth]

“Leo,” linoleum block print. Dragon with Sacred Datura

[ink-the-artist]

Creature of Light lithograph

[banshipuppy]

Lil garden ✨✨🍀🌱🍀✨✨✨

[vecb-art]

set your reminders, a second run of this print will be available tomorrow at 12pm PST ⛓️

[del-absurdo]

音楽. Yukako Manabe.

[magpiemohr]

I realized I never posted how my first lithograph came out after I’d shared the process photos! Here she is, “an iris for remembering.”

[creativeefforts]

sheepy kissy

[palaeosinensis]

Do not obey in advance...you are only teaching power what it can do.

[cainhowlett]

7 months of carving coming to an end, I lost some details and added some. I love and need to see the prints, but honestly, the block is the final art piece for me. It’s what I spend all my time with and each one has a segment of my life attached with it.

Shina woodblock

[oliviawhen]

My holiday cards for this year! ✿‧₊˚.

[thetidemice]

Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today I wish, I wish he'd go away... When I came home last night at three The man was waiting there for me But when I looked around the hall I couldn't see him there at all!

text from Antigonish [I met a man who wasn't there] by William Hughes Mearnes, monotype print w digital touch-ups

textless versions under the cut

[inkenstabell]

Winterreise

etchings on zinc, 40 x 30 cm inkenstabell.com