[phoenix]

one of my major projects is appaerntly a large/"ambitious" silk lino cut.

lino cut is my most hated form of print making. which is why this is really difficult to get into. Generally I dislike the medium, the way it works, the look of the outcome, how painful it is to work (even though I've spent tens of hours hand burnishing copper before... this is different type of pain) and the fact that once I've used the lino I cant ever use it again.

something tells me that none of you will have a flipping clue but if there is anyone who works with lino or has a favourite artist who works with lino, it'd be nice to get some more examples of styles I can try that look less.. classic.


The only thing I've come across which is kind of interesting is this lady who does massive reduction lino prints with many colours... so it kind of looks like the watercolour effect in photoshop. But that is far too time consuming and whenever I've done reduction I start with a series of 20 and only end up with five. My lecturer suggestd I do a bleed print to help prevent this but another thing I like about print making is the large borders and lonliness type feeling a print can have when it is set well inside the paper margin.