#reduction linocut

[knaveprints]

folc-gedrēfnes (people-trouble), 2024

reduction linocut on somerset, 22 x 21cm, edition of 4 an exploration into the intersection of narratives of queerness and the imagery of the green man or foliate head. made for a recent group show. (available for purchase)

#my art #art #medieval art #printmaking #print #lino #reduction linocut #relief print #lino print

[rightbrainawake]

First Reduction - Adapt as you go

Although this is titled first reduction, it is not the first one I started, but the first I finished. I will explain in a following post.

I had come back from country Victoria, we were visiting family, in doing so one sees different scenes to living in the city. I had spotted some geese on the side of the road and found myself enthralled with their comic gathering; the gaggle amused me so.

The intent was to use colour, as before, yet after the second grey went down I had realised that the first layer was way too dark and therefore the second layer, being darker, was even further from where I needed it to be, so I changed tack.

Where once I was going to add yellowed greens and orange (refer sketch), I was now going to finish it off much simpler as a greyscale reduction which still conveyed the amusing gaggle I had seen.

What this did prove, and will be further explained in my next post, was that my makeshift registration jig worked quite well.

#artists on tumblr #original art #printmaking #art #linoart #linoprint #greyscale #geese #gaggleofgeese #reduction linocut #reduction linoprint

[pigeonpoem]

knifey, linocut, 14x11", 2022

i first started this reduction print thinking i would fully freehand it but actually, that's hard as hell and i don't actually have the brain for it so i ended up doing about half of a colored pencil sketch of it before realizing i made a dire lighting mistake and settling with what i had. then i went into procreate to plan the print in as few layers as possible, which apparently meant five layers with 3 rainbow rolls

somehow the four color rainbow roll was the easiest to print, although i did do this all by hand with a barren so each printing session took about an hour and a half on average just to print sixteen copies

when i finished the fourth layer (the rainbow roll with the two blues), i found that i really liked how it turned out with the patches of the four color rainbow roll showing through and the blues making a cool gradient in the water and didn't want to cover it up. so i changed the plans a bit and only printed an adjusted final layer onto five of the prints and ended up with a varied edition of fifteen prints (keeping one for myself ofc)

as always, these are available on my et / sy, pigeonpoemart <3

#amyl and the sniffers #printmaking #reduction linocut #relief printmaking #linocut #artists on tumblr #artists of color #flightless records #comfort to me #this print is available on my etsy pigeonpoemart

[kestarren]

Linocut prints by William Hays. ~ Dawn ~ After the Storm, 2016.

#William Hays #art #Linocut reduction prints

[dognonsense]

Safe supply saves lives linocut patch i carved today!

#punk #diy #patches #linocut patch #linocut print #carving #diy patches #diy punk #save supply #safe supply saves lives #my patches #harm reduction #harm redux

[styxdippedorgans]

plans for a 4 color (2 panel) reduction linocut, gonna be selling original prints of this one for $20-$25, just waiting on supplies in tha mail so hopefully gonna have these bad boys ready 2 sell in ~2-3 weeks :3

the linoleum/planning papers ft a bunch of shit that was on my desk arranged very particularly around it is up there above this text box. yeah that’s what that is hehe : )

here’s the original drawing wowew hi that’s me

#buy my art please i really wanna buy my cat a cat tree. i’ve been telling him i will… he’s expecting it now #kink drawing #queer art #lesbian art #dyke art #dyke #printmaking #linocut #queer artist #selling prints #reduction print #self portrait

[gargoylelads]

Franking Absolute Stein

#my art #hehe finished prints #reduction print #printmaking #linocut #linoprint #linoleum #frankenstein #frankensteins monster

[varosesvadon]

Szóval az van, hogy hosszú fetrengés, sóhajtozás, kéztördelés és keserű ‘bárcsak valaki más megcsinálná’ után visszavettem piciny kezembe a vésőt, a hengert; de még a présem csodálatos magenta nyomókarját is, és lett csiripp:

EN: So, after a long period of sighs, dread, wringing my hands and fervently wishing that ‘please, someone else do it’ I had finally taken up the chisel, the barren, and even the handle of my wonderful magenta-coloured handpress, and alas, a bird:

Még az editálás hátravan, meg egy látogatás a keretezőnél paszpartuért minimum, de utána @brgzmpff -nél fognak lakni ❤️

This is such a wonderful world, és BIRB.

(ugyanitt: magamnak fejsimi ugyan, de… DAT SZÍNÁTMENETZ!)

#város és vadon #my art #linocut #reduction linoprint #linoprint #robin #vörösbegy #csipkebogyó #rosehip #city and wilderness

[norfkid]

think i kinda like linoprinting

#🛷 #i’ve been working on a Watership Down thing but it’s a reductive lino piece so it’s taking a while #i’m really unconfident with how it’s going so far. how it’s printing & the linocut design in general Isn’t Great #so if it’s shite by the time i print the final layer #then i might just submit this one as my Jackson’s Art Prize piece instead #art #printmaking #a starved dog’s logic about bones #uniposting #my art

[cannibalvirus]

"i love don't want to remember"

ink on paper, reduction linocut

10"x12"

#agnes #printmaking #linocut #reduction print #linoprint #linocarving #stevie

[martianlukeart]

long time no post! happy new year! here's some linocuts of aspen trees i made recently :)

#illustration #linocut #linocarving #reduction lino #printmaking #block printing #aspen trees #artists on tumblr

[anintelligentoctopus]

Reduction-ed!

For a first go at reduction linocut it came out well. A lot of them didn't line up quite perfectly but it's not the end of the world

There's forty one prints in total in five different background colours (orangey-yellow, pale yellow, light blue, dull pink, bright pink), eight of each (7 of dull pink) + two odd ones (the two dark purple-ish ones on the bottom row)

And btw if you're a mutual/friend/longtime follower and you want one, drop a DM

#ray's art #linocut #reduction print #printmaking #cactus #dw about paying for postage i can cover it #that said if you're in north america i'll be in the us from this weekend on and postage will be a bit cheaper from there so #more accurate to say there's 7 of each colour (6 of dull pink) bc i'm keeping at least one of each (+ the two odd ones)

[rightbrainawake]

Second Reduction with all the learning

So, this was the first reduction lino that I started, but as it turned out it was the second to be finished; I will explain.

Like trees, I went with birds, but with copying subject I ensured I had a decent composition: the reflection of the bird on the shore in the water as it drained back to the ocean down the beach in the afternoon of long shadows.

My process was:

Make up ink

Prepare jig and press

Ink up the plate

Print simple cartridge paper proof

If ok proceed or revisit ink and reproof.

Soak a page for 10 mins in a water bath

Soak additional page in at 5 min mark to speed things up.

Ink reduction plate

Take out paper

Pad dry with towel

Address plate in registration jig

Place paper using dowel and hole punch holes.

Place sprawl sheets of newsprint

Place felt

Print away…….

Hurry back to start again

This was great and I could, while I built up a sweat, keep to the 5 mins between prints so I could maximise my time at the press.

The issue was the second print…..Did the paper have to soak again? What was the rule…..The paper had me questioning myself.

If I ran it through dry then the image was removed considerably. If I ran it through with only 5 mins of soaking then it wasn’t so badly misaligned, but still very noticeable.

( 5 mins soaking vs. 10 mins soaking i.e. the original socking time )

So, this meant that I needed to soak each paper for the exact same time as the original print.

Paper has memory!

This is why this print didn’t finish first (below are the cartridge paper proofs).

It turned out well, I just lost too many with my paper memory learning….. you will notice again that I didn’t follow the initial colour plan, seems I constantly adapt.

Insight from Andy, as I had to hand paint the orange (feet and beaks) and black (flight feathers and eyes). I now place a piece of acrylic between the newsprint and the felt to reduce the amount of movement between the press and the paper around the relief pieces of negative space I had carved away.

#artists on tumblr #original art #printmaking #art #linoart #linoprint #mixed media #reduction linoprint #reduction linocut #silver gull #seagull #reflections #beachvibes

[pigeonpoem]

open water, 14x11", 2022

this print had been on my mind since last summer but i hadn't started even sketching it until the week before i started the actual printing process. these are my favorite lyrics in the song and i love how they feel like a run-on sentence so much. my only regret for this print is not being able to fit the next chunk of lyrics in. even the printing was so good, the lines on the last layer made a bapapapapapap sound and feeling as i pulled it

#king gizzard and the lizard wizard #kgatlw #flying microtonal banana #flightless records #printmaking #relief printmaking #reduction linocut #my art #artists on tumblr #artists of color #this print is available on my etsy pigeonpoemart

[actualjenna]

HELLO, SOUPHEAD!

#printmaking #linocut #linoprint #stamp making #illustration #artists on tumblr #souphead #i havent done linocuts in sooo long so its nice to get back to these!! i bought supplies to make more too #i would love to get better w reduction prints #also hopefully i will be dropping a souphead comic soonish! stay tuned #also i have some of these available if anyone would like 2 purchase

[uwmspeccoll]

It's Fine Press Friday!

This week we present another book from the estate of the late Dennis Bayuzick: Powerdog, a children’s story based on a public television documentary explaining the importance of horses for the Dakota-Nakota-Lakota people. The book was written and printed by Polly B. Johnson at her Press of the Unseen Unicorn in San Antonio, Texas, in an edition of 50 copies.

The book explains the mythical origin of horses according to the aforementioned Native American people. Their word for horse translates into “something like 'power-dog'” according to the author. The story tells of the people who were forced to kill their dog companions to eat due to a lack of food in the harsh winter, and how a boy begged the Great Holy Spirit to prevent his dog from becoming food. When he awoke, his dog was transformed into a horse that helped him herd buffalo back to his home and end the practice of eating dogs.

The edition was printed on Masa paper using the Verona type with reduction linocut illustrations. The cover is made of Larroque Mouchette paper with flecks of paper pulp.

View other books from the collection of Dennis Bayuzick.

View more Fine Press Friday Posts.

– Sarah S., Special Collections Graduate Intern

#Fine Press Friday #fine press fridays #letterpress printing #fine press books #powerdog #Polly B. Johnson #Press of the Unseen Unicorn #Masa paper #Verona type #linocut #linocuts #linoleum print #Larroque paper #reduction prints #Dennis Bayuzick #Native Americans #Dakota #Nakota #Lakota #horses #myths #Sarah S.