I’ve been carrying on developing a suite of very small lino block portraits that I started a couple of blogs ago (in Process, Process, Process). I did some digital manipulation on Photoshop and got the image to the right size on my laptop and traced the image onto a good tracing parchment using a 3B pencil. Then I flipped the tracing over and covered the back with firm strokes of white conte crayon.
Then I turned it over onto a sheet of dark grey block-cutting vinyl and transferred the image using a 3H pencil, well sharpened. Finally I painted in the areas that will print white using a white acrylic paint and a fine, firm sable brush. This will guide my cutting.
Then I started on the next image. Once I’ve done 9, I’ll cut them apart into neat 4×4 inch squares.
Reblogged this on JHladikVoss57's Blog and commented:
Great idea for linoprint artists
Thanks for reblogging 🙂
Never used acrylic on lino before-great idea! Thanks!
It sticks. I tried gouache but it wouldn’t spread properly. And I can’t see pencil on it. I’ve not tried it before so I hope it works 🙂
Never thought about painting the ‘print’ area – but it makes sense. An interesting post – though not as good as a scribble of St George slaying the Dragon!
Harumph! 😡
Interesting transfer-process: I like the ‘white carbon paper’ idea!
Thanks, I wasn’t sure how else to do it 🙂