Reduction lino printing

At the Leeds Print Festival I had a number of conversations with people about reduction linocut prints, where I heard of other people’s successes and told of my failures. That’s not ent…

For over 20 years @missedgeillustration has been working as a printmaker, producing collagraph and relief prints. However, recently she has focused her practice on the creation of reduction lino prints featuring nature, animals, flowers, plants, still life, and interiors. Check out her work over on the blog. Link in bio or peopleofprint.com. . . #reductionprint #popmembers #printspotters #printisntdead #peopleofprint #print #printmaking #printmaker #linoprint #linocutprint #linocut…

Reduction Lino

These two prints by Rosie are good examples of some of the elements of our print-making which were on show at the Gardens Gallery. They are both linocuts made by the reduction method, which allows us to create multi-coloured images from the same block by re-carving it between each layer of differently coloured ink which makes up the finished image. Both images, The Elms and The Chesnut are composed from four colours. In both instances, the first ink is a pale one, and the block has been…

Linocut. 3 plates. 2020 Edition of 75 Image size 45x45cm, printed by hand from 3 plates on Somerset Velvet 300gm Signed, numbered and titled in pencil beneath the image.

Reduction linocut print created with two layers.

Four main methods: reduction lino print, multi-block lino print, jigsaw lino print and hand-coloured lino print.

reduction lino print