Making a LinoCut Emblem -- Linoleum Printmaking

all right hello everybody Peter here today we're gonna take this piece of linoleum I think it's called gray or some people call it battleship no no no linoleum as you can see it's got like fabric on the back of it you hear it too and hear it and I take this and then I'm going to take these knives I've got here a little set of a Power Grip knives I'm going to take these little rubber caps off of there and big kind of carve and dig a design into this right that's the general idea and then I've got two other right tools I've got the got the squidgy and the sculpture and when I used these to first of all apply ink across it and then use this to press a piece of paper down on to it doing the process known as printmaking and let's see how it goes I've tried it once or twice before but every time I try I changed things a little bit whether it's the you know the product the the I kind of talked the material I'm cutting in this case linoleum so it's al in Oh cut or linocut I don't have to say I've never heard anyone else say it out loud in my life because I just read tutorials on the internet and they don't say it out loud because I don't watch the YouTube videos because I hate watching YouTube videos who likes those I just read the the wiki house or or I changed something like the tools I'm using or the ink I'm using so today we have another combination let's get started also this is the ink I'm using speedball professional super graphic black by Bill thick it's what I used last time but we'll see how it goes I mean I think it works good here is the folded laminated steel Power Grip japanese imported gouge that i'll be using a carve most of this first thing I did was watered down some acrylic paint stir it up mix it up and painted it onto my piece of linoleum this way when I started carving away the linoleum it would be more evident or apparent and easier to see the progress I was making now after I did this I kind of sketched out a little design with a pencil on top of the paint and I think I might have maybe sketched out this design underneath the paint because as I was working I was kind of wiping away my pencil drawing with my hand it was all right now so it cured the paint a little a little heat gun there I sketched in the design and all went well and I felt like I was doing really good and I think I was having a good time and then the carving began for this part of the carving I was using kind of a very shallow u-shaped gouge it feels great it feels very satisfying I think there are a lot of other very specialized tools you can use when you really get into the printmaking for you know maybe something to to hold what you're carving down on the desk maybe a little clamp ray something to push it against the main thing I was holding in my mind the main thought in my mind was to never push the gouge never push my sharp tool my sharp tools towards any part of my body you know I didn't want to come out of this with a partially read print you know I didn't I didn't wake up planning on shedding my own blood today and thankfully that didn't happen so you guys can all rest easy I came out of this thing totally unscathed somehow with all the reckless carving I've done here and other projects I've never cut myself and I'm you know just like with all the crazy all the wood burning and pyrography I've done some have never burned myself and I don't feel like I'm really that careful even though I should be and I am pretty accident prone and like other areas of my life that aren't art when I think about art I don't I don't in the back of my mind want to be thinking about pain at the same time well I guess I do anyways but I mean that's that's probably one of my inspirations but you know what I mean it's not the same this working well this was working a lot better than the first time I tried carving some linoleum well I just noticed a part of the video there right carved toward myself but I was being careful the last time I was using some other tools that I found out were actually wood carving tools and they just weren't working that well I even would sometimes you know had different tips from different people you know I have like a little leather strop with some different compounds for sharpening the tools I even had my my heat gun there I would heat up the linoleum sometimes to make it softer and smoother easier to cut through but all in all I didn't really have to do any of that I just kind of went at it with this power grip tool and it worked great and it was there's something very kind of satisfying about if you just sit there start carving you can really get into a kind of like a meditative state you know if you've got some music going let you like or something however you work best some people work best with music some people work best in silence some people work best enough it'll listen to a podcast or they have someone that talked to at the same time maybe they just like birds chirping or the white noise of their conditioner in the background they do what you got to do try to get into like a little comfortable environment where you can just kind of zone out and don't have too many things that distract you the things that distract you might work as great enhancers for other people so don't you know just figure out what works good for you anyway so this is very satisfying this carving part I kind of I'll say the some of the lines didn't get as like crisp and sharp as I wanted maybe it's maybe I need to do like a bigger piece like I look at all these wood maybe that some of the carvings and prints I've seen from like other people that inspire me throughout the ages you know people that are long dead I think probably they maybe have been like copperplate edgings or wood cuts right so maybe that would those lines and I don't know something just seemed more crisp about it and doesn't mean it seemed crisp but I feel like there was a very there was a limit to the how small I could make the lines you know what I'm saying anyways it turned out ok everything was fine I think by the time I was about done carving the print itself I was pretty happy just to look at the linoleum and it looked cool you know the flat black of the part I hadn't carved and then the cool textures of everything as I carved away the background you know there's kind of like a bit of a hatching to it and then I went ahead and after I felt good the design itself was done I tried to cut away as much of the egg as much of the excess material as possible from the outside so that I wouldn't be as I rolled on the ink to the to the raised areas it wouldn't you know touch the stuff in the background and less less stuff for ink to get caught on I don't know how to describe it and then I sanded the surface with a piece of sandpaper to kind of get some of that paint off that I had put on there I got my ink out put it on a piece of plexiglass rolled it around and at first I put way too much ink on this piece of plexiglass I was using is a little a little spot to spread around my ink way too much but I mean that's how you learn that's why I just wanted to make some prints and this is the kind of thing where maybe I could have looked it up watched a video you know figure out you know exactly you know you know one tablespoon of ink or something but I feel I don't know I just like trying it out and do it for myself and learning from a little bit of you know guess and check trial and error sort of thing which sometimes ends up with me getting discouraged and not going forward with it anymore but sometimes when I do keep going and it's something I feel like I want to keep doing I feel like I learned it even better that way then I applied it to the stamp try not to get on my fingers or anything I just had some scrap paper in the background then I got my printmaking paper out Strathmore five by seven inches and just kind of took it and just kind of plopped it down right on top of there and the first one I did I had gummed up so much ink on there that the piece of paper slid around a little bit so trial and error that's where the trial and error comes in this that was the point when I knew for sure I mean I had a had a hunch before but is that's the point when I knew for sure that I had way too much ink on there but how else do I mean that was a I guess I could have scraped some ink off of my little roller pad over there it looked all right I mean look at that it's fine any better than nothing I mean you should just be a piece of blank paper and now I made it a not black piece of paper my little design on it so with my second application it was still too much ink but by the time I got around to like my third fourth fifth sixth seventh it's nice too I did 15 prints all right and I would kind of go through a rollercoaster of having too little too too much ink and I guess you kind of just get a feel for it of how much you know ink to add back to your little roller spot there to keep it at the right the right amount of ink to apply to the linoleum to you know press up the paper onto it then it looks good and it kind of looks even a little bit better yeah so I did 15 prints and and that's when like the whole big question of printmaking came to me again and I just didn't know here's the question is why make prints I guess it's so you can give him away and then I thought maybe I should have been making these unfolded pieces of paper big nice thick folded like greeting card sized things then I could have at least use them as greeting cards right that would have been cool but maybe for next time so I just took the tray out of my oven stacked all them in there let him dry and pretty happy how it turned out they did take a while to dry and I left the lid off of my ink too hopefully it's still good for next time I might go ahead and order another bucket ink just just in case it went bad because I left the lid off for like a two days pretty funnel pretty fun little experience there little experiment experience not sure what or why it is but it is

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Length: 10min 57sec (657 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 08 2019