A step-by-step guide on how to create personal and contemporary linocut prints. Whether you''re looking to bring your old and beloved objects to life, celebrate the nature around you, or create wonderful homemade gifts and cards, Linocut covers it all! With 12 easy-to-follow projects, Sam Marshall guides you through the steps needed to create your own contemporary prints. Starting simply by taking inspiration from everyday life and making your initial sketches, you''ll soon be picking up your tools to carve your lino, working the inks and printing like a professional. Featuring step-by-step projects ranging from souvenir prints and a flower-filled concertina book, to personalised greeting cards and multi-layered colourful prints, you''ll also learn how to experiment with monoprinting, chine colle and blocking techniques. Linocut is the perfect handbook to expand your printmaking skills, whether you''re just starting out, returning to the craft or looking to build your crafting portfolio. Find inspiration from other amazing makers, gather essential (and inexpensive) inks and linoleum, then follow Sam''s tips to create prints that are personal and unique to you.>

In this beautiful and lively book, you feel welcomed into the world of relief printing. The instructions are well set out with easily understood practical guidance, and such a friendly vibe, you can't fail to want to grab your tools and get started.

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A step-by-step guide on how to create personal and contemporary linocut prints.

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Sam Marshall is a printmaker living in rural Northamptonshire with her mini dachshund Miss Marple. She trained at the Slade School of Fine Art and gained an MA level Diploma at the Royal Drawing School where she now teaches. She has always been passionate about drawing, her favourite thing to do is travel with her sketchbook and see what inspires her. Sam runs online drawing and printmaking workshops that attract students from all over the world and is the author of the best-selling Linocut.

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Introduction
About this book

1. What is Linocut?

• The History of Linocutting
• How Linocutting is Used Today

2. Tools and Materials

• Linocut Tools
• Lino
• Ink
• Ink Rollers
• Papers
• Hand Printing Tools
• Small Presses
• Inking Slab
• Sketchbooks
• Other Bits and Bobs

3. Preparing your Workspace

• Drawing and Cutting Area
• Printing Area
• Drying Area
• Storage Area for Materials and Prints

4. From Image to Block

• Drawing Directly Onto the Block
• Tracing Your Drawing the Traditional Way
• Tracing Directly from the Drawing
• Using Carbon Paper to Transfer Your Drawing

An Interview with Cally Conway

5. Mark Marking

• Holding Your Tools
• Using Your Tools Safely
• Mark-making Warm-up

6. Cleaning Up

• Cleaning Up Oil-based
• Water-soluble Inks

7. Carving Lino

• One Image Four Ways

An Interview with Harriet Popham

8. Registration

• Super-simple Registration
• Paper Template Registration
• Registration Board
• Ternes Burton Clips

9. Simple Linocuts

• Black-and-white Print
• Adding Colour to Your Simple Linocut

10. Noise

• Red Kites

11. Out in the Garden

• A Nature Study
• Tips on Drawing Outside or In Public

12. Editioning Prints

• Edition Size
• Pricing
• How to Edition
• Numbering and Signing
• Limited-edition Prints

13. A Weekend Away

• Holiday Memory Print

An Interview with Izzy Williamson

14. Reduction Linocut

• A Practical Object

15. Multi-block Prints

• Key Block Method
• Four-block Print

An Interview with Meg Justice

16. Displaying Multiple Prints

• Concertina Book

17. Experimental Printmaking

• Combining Monoprint and Linocut
• Repurposing Old Blocks
• Linocut and Chine Collé
• Jigsaw Linocut
• Rainbow Roll

An Interview with Tristan Sherwood

18. Making Linocut Cards

• Single-block Card
• Two-block Card

19. Bringing It All Together

• A Large Linocut

20. Next Steps in Printmaking

• Relief Techniques
• Intaglio Printmaking
• Other Printing Techniques

Conclusion

• Practical Tips When Things Aren't Going 'Right'
• Setting Up a Regular Practice
• Advice for When You Are Lacking in Motivation
• Call Yourself an Artist