#linoleum Block Print

[arthistoryanimalia]

#MarsupialMonday :

Walter Inglis Anderson (USA, 1903-1965)

Opossum, 1984

linoleum block print

from the book An Alphabet [Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 1984]

[megamoth]

Scorpio dragon with traditional marigold. 4x6” linoleum block print for my October patreon reward

[goodshipophelia]

messing around with block print designs for the star of fëanor (the goal is a tryptich representing the burning of the ships at losgar)

[mcromwell]

New lino designs! These will be printed on various materials (mostly patches) for Further Confusion. I'm particularly proud of the hare.

[mrokat-art]

✦ little fluffy moth linocut ✦

prints

[sharpibees]

CALCATRIX linocut

[saltedsnailstudio]

Ghost Turnip

Linocut print on kitakata paper.

This guy is inspired by the “ghost turnip” plaster-cast model in the National Museum of Ireland that was created by museum artist Eileen Barnes from a turnip jack-o-lantern donated in 1943 by Roos Ní Braonáin, a school teacher with a desire to preserve the history of the style of Jack-o-lanterns that were popular in Ireland in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

In the states today, carved pumpkin jack-o-lanterns have become completely ubiquitous in late October. This tradition actually comes to us from Irish and Scottish immigrants who brought over the practice of carving faces into turnips/other locally-available root vegetables & lighting them from inside with a candle around Samhain.

The terminology “jack-o-lantern” has a particularly storied past: It’s usage in the 1600s was basically interchangeable with “will-o-the-wisps” which refers to mysterious, ghostly lights seen over peat bogs. It isn’t until the 1800s that we see the term “jack-o-lantern” used to refer to a carved vegetable. It’s believed the term is derived from an Irish folktale about a fiend named Jack who tricked the devil and must wander the earth for all eternity with just a (turnip) lantern to light his way; Stingy Jack, Jack-of-the-lantern, jack-o-lantern.

[birdfish-co]

digital design for a linocut print !! the block was only 5 in x 4 in so sadly i had to sacrifice a lot of the tiny details. but for having not carved linoleum since highschool i think i did pretty good!

[silvernsold]

The Cairn Maiden

reduction prints with a linoleum block, I ended up liking the final one better than the one with multiple drops but its ok <3

[hannahspoonsart]

beetle block prints i did to use up some scrap linoleum and paper

[megamoth]

Libra dragon with Salvia apiana. 4x6” linoleum block print for my September patreon reward

[goodshipophelia]

neither law, nor love, nor league of swords

finally printing my tryptich of the burning of the ships at losgar! it was my first real holy shit this is riveting moment reading the silm for the first time, and it has loomed large in my imagination ever since.

©️ 2023

[jstor]

Happy new year! We're officially back online for 2024. What have you been up to?

[mcromwell]

Hand printed lino greeting cards are in the shop!

[mrokat-art]

✸ Pumpkin Cat linocut ✸

prints available

[rayleeschobel]

I made a linocut from sketch to carved in one day

The other day, I sat down to work at 2:30pm, feeling guilty about starting my work day so late. I got into the flow state for the first time in a while though, and next thing I knew, it was almost 11. In two sittings (took a break to eat dinner), I went from sketch to totally carved print.

It got me thinking about how I always feel guilty for starting later in the day, although I still do plenty of work. It's not like there's anything wrong with having a schedule that's not 9-5, especially when my most productive hours are mid-afternoon. Also I know I shouldn't feel like I need to do 8 hours of work daily, but hey that's what I get for growing up with a workaholic dad.

But more so it made me a bit introspective about the whole process of artmaking. Like, in the span of about 8 hours, I created something that otherwise wouldn't exist. It's such a basic but overwhelming idea. That I sat down, took an idea I had, and made it into something physical. I often think about why I make things- because I love the process of printmaking and learning- but I don't often think about the bigger picture of being able to transform something as abstract and far from reality as a thought into something that can be observed, held, and shared. Even trying to put the feeling into words doesn't feel like it can do it justice. It feels like something ethereal, made more amazing by the idea that anybody can create something. I guess it makes perfect sense that something so foundational to being a human would also make me feel so connected to myself and the universe.

Anyway, here's the linoleum carving and it printed on fabric and newsprint :)