In the Spring my son and I did a linoprinting course, and was thinking at the time about printing Christmas cards. So over the last week or so I have had a go at this, using one of my old carvings and making a few new ones. I wasn't going to post about this, but if my friends and family do see this post they still don't know which card they will receive.
I had the idea of putting some cards in my Etsy shop, but think I need to work a bit more at my carving precision and printing, which as you can see is sometimes a bit smudgy. I printed straight onto the card, but see a lot of cards in the shops and fairs print onto cartridge paper and then mount this. Perhaps this would be better, as I have had to wash my hands between each print, and also then it would be easier to get the print nicely centred on the card.
I had a lot of fun doing this, and have some ideas for some more prints.
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| The robin's red breast was added with water colour |
These are so beautiful. I had a go at lino printing a few years ago, the first time since I was at primary school and had an accident involving the blade and my finger! I really enjoyed it but struggled to get any fine details like you have here. I blamed my tool but I think it might just be me! Did you fine they take forever to dry too? I'm wondering if the ink I used was a good choice or not. Did I mention that these are so beautiful?! :-D
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