Reduction print

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…

Sunkissed! 💜🩷❤️🧡💛 This is my color reduction woodcut print for ART341C with @busybeeprintcompany !! I was only required to do 3 layers but since I'm insane and can never do just the bare minimum, I did five 😎 If I had to guess, I'd say I probably put upwards of 35 hours into this. I'll post my green version at some point later this week! 🫶 - #printmaking #reliefprint #reliefprintmaking

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…

This Starling bird portrait is a reduction linoleum print with 9 (!) colour layers. It’s the 4th of a series of bird portraits I’m working on currently. This one was definitely the most complex one…

Reduction linocut print created with two layers.

Learn how to create reduction lino printed pictures in this workshop, with Lee Wright an experienced printmaker and teacher. The workshop will...

Carrie Dennison on Instagram: “A 3 layer reduction lino print, made as a sample for a reduction lino printing workshop that I'll be teaching next month. Reduction lino…”