lino printing

Lino printing is fairly easy, Firstly a design is choose to be printed. A mirror image of this design is transferred to the lino block. Typically this is done using tracing paper or sometimes the sketch is made directly to the lino block Areas of the design are then carved from the lino block.

The areas of the block witch you haven’t cut away are the areas that get printed. once you have finished removing the areas you wish to remain white the block is then ready to be inked, select the colour of ink you wish to use and roll out a thin layer onto a smooth flat surface with a roller and then roll the ink onto the surface of the tile so that it covers all of the uncut areas. then place the material you wish to print on over the top of the tile and use a clean roller to roll over the back of the material to print the image from the tile onto it.


once you have made your first set of prints you can cut away more sections of the tile if you wish and print in a different colour over the top and still have the same image but with different colours on it instead of just one colour.

Typically this printing process is carried out manually but it can also be done using a printing press. For most people the manually process is just fine but if you are looking for professional quality prints then a printing press is the next step.

for the prints that i have done, i used an image that was created by an artist called Keith haring but to make things more interesting i looked at another artist named Andy Warhol and took influence of block colours and put that technique into my own work which turned out very successful