Posts under ‘Colour reduction linocuts’

I was watching Wonderland on television and it reminded me of this print. I didn’t learn to swim until I was an adult and then I used to go for a swim everyday at the Imperial Hotel in Torquay. The ‘Imperial Ladies’ are the dedicated swimmers that I used to see in the pool there. [...]

This is one of a series of cuts illustrating fairy tales. I think the design is reminiscent of Russian folk art and I like how the design is entirely contained within her cape. I wanted to cut it as if it was a piece of needlework. The gold ink is incredible to print with, as [...]

The Goat Walk is a raised footpath that runs from the end of The Strand to Elm Grove Road beside the Exe estuary in Topsham, Devon. I have gone for many Sunday walks along this path and so I decided to use it as one of my first experiments with landscape. I wanted to incorporate pattern [...]

This is a simple and bold cut that I’ve just completed. The inks used were blue grey first and then yellow ochre on top. The registration is good as the white outlines are crisp. I might use it as a Christmas card design. image size (w x h) – 150mm x 210mm technique –  two [...]

I’ve just revived an old linocut that I had abandoned, because it looked over-busy and confusing, by turning it into a colour print. As you can see the colours really differentiate different elements in the picture and make it much easier to look at. image size (w x h) – 210mm x 300mm technique – [...]

This was my first experiment with colour and reduction block printing. I cut the white lines first and printed the block in green ink, then I cut out the areas I wanted to remain green and printed the block in black. The white lines are crisp which shows that the registration is good.  As the [...]

This is a reduction method colour linocut. It is printed from one block. Firstly I cut out the white shapes only and printed the block using yellow ink. Then I cut out the yellow shapes on the block and printed blue on top of the yellow to make green, then cut and printed another green. [...]