Can I please ask how do you create the layout from the portrait photo please? I would love to try a lino cut project from the potrait of my dog but unsure where to start to get the outline. Any advice would be much appreciated :)
I don't remember exactly where I got it, but I always look for images that are in the public domain (not copyrighted). Look on The Library of Congress site, or National Archive site, or The Theodore Roosevelt Library site. Do a search for "portrait of Theodore Roosevelt, smiling".
I did a scratchboard drawing (pen and ink on scratchboard) first. I scanned that drawing and enlarged to about double size and made a film positive of it. I used the film positive to expose a silkscreen and printed the drawing onto a piece of lino. I think this is a good way to do a lino, but there are other ways and some of them may even be better. Now that I have more experience with cutting plates, I will probably skip the scrachboard drawing step and cut the drawing directly on the lino. Drawing on scratchboard and cutting a lino are very similar. However, a linocut is not as forgiving if mistakes are made.
I'm still pretty new to printmaking, so I'm still experimenting with different processes in order to find the way that suits me best. For this one, I did a scratchboard drawing first. Then I enlarged that drawing up by 200 % and screen printed it in black onto the lino. Then it was just a matter of cutting out around the drawing. One advantage to that method is that I end up with an original drawing plus the prints.
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Well done! Very successful graphics, it's nice to look at such a free and precise line - you can see a huge experience in it!
This is magnificent! How do you transfer the image to the linoleum?
Answer his fucking question Michael!
Wonderful work
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Amazing as always!
Nice!
Can I please ask how do you create the layout from the portrait photo please? I would love to try a lino cut project from the potrait of my dog but unsure where to start to get the outline. Any advice would be much appreciated :)
You work is amazing, I wanted to ask, how did you get or edit this image to print it on the lino?
I don't remember exactly where I got it, but I always look for images that are in the public domain (not copyrighted). Look on The Library of Congress site, or National Archive site, or The Theodore Roosevelt Library site. Do a search for "portrait of Theodore Roosevelt, smiling".
Impressive!
Hello! May I ask what are you using to spray the plate? Thanks
Did you do a vector image first?
I did a scratchboard drawing (pen and ink on scratchboard) first. I scanned that drawing and enlarged to about double size and made a film positive of it. I used the film positive to expose a silkscreen and printed the drawing onto a piece of lino.
I think this is a good way to do a lino, but there are other ways and some of them may even be better. Now that I have more experience with cutting plates, I will probably skip the scrachboard drawing step and cut the drawing directly on the lino. Drawing on scratchboard and cutting a lino are very similar. However, a linocut is not as forgiving if mistakes are made.
Curious what you did to get the print on the lino in the first place. Most stuff I use just smudges and looses detail as I work
I'm still pretty new to printmaking, so I'm still experimenting with different processes in order to find the way that suits me best. For this one, I did a scratchboard drawing first. Then I enlarged that drawing up by 200 % and screen printed it in black onto the lino. Then it was just a matter of cutting out around the drawing. One advantage to that method is that I end up with an original drawing plus the prints.
@@MichaelHalbert1952 Ah nice. Seemed to work well, may have to try it myself. Thanks :)