Guide to Lino, Drypoint and Etch printing

To not clutter main menu, all of the freshly reworked articles in thsi series are going to be living here. Pick whatever you haven’t read yet and go onwards from it. They all link toa each other like Ussuri white-toothed shrews anyway.

TUTORIALS AND HOW TO’S

The Introduction

There are many websites talking about printmaking from its basics to the very advanced techniques, many tutorials, videos and so on, this is true. What am I doing with this (new iteration) of these pages and why pages and not a blog? I want to do it a little bit differently. No “too clever” and overly long descriptions, no “to do this all you need is a 500$ worth of tools”. A little bit of theatrics, maybe some fun (hopefully anyway) and a practical explanation of what works and what doesn’t. That said, lets go onto the main course:

The Basics

Assuming you have an image source in a form of a sketch (if you don’t – please obtain one, ideally by drawing it yourself and come back later. Joking, sort of, but really, get a sketch of an idea at least. Saves you time and money). Ideally, the sketch is in 1:1 scale to your print, but sometimes what I do it make smalelr version and then enlarge it as necessary. Some works were transferred by measuring planend shapes and going “alright… so the scale is roughly 1:5 so this will be here, this here and that over there. Sort…