Linocut flickbook workshop with Jotta

My linocut flickbook workshop at the Jotta Live event on Saturday was great fun. I’ve been wanting to run a flick book workshop for a while and I had eight keen students happy to take up the challenge of making a simple animation using linocut printing in just three hours! The first part of the […]

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Wood Engraving greetings cards

Wood engravings! As greetings cards! Why didn’t I think of this before!  I’ve had these two little wood engravings of boys riding animals – one on a pony and one on a tortoise – sitting in my drawer for a while now. They’re not particularly accomplished technically as I’ve not done enough wood engraving to […]

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Linomation – Group Hand Carved Animation: Linomation – A Group Project

Linomation – Group Hand Carved Animation: Linomation – A Group Project: Currently trying to set about getting people interested in working on a collaborative project. The project is about creating a hand carved a…

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Linocut starter set – now with linocutboy logo!

My linocut starter set comes with everything the beginner needs to start making linocuts. And now it comes in a beautiful box adorned with my linocutboy logo (printed from a linocut, naturally). Here it is in all its glory. Inside the box you get all the equipment you need for carving and printing your own […]

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Source: etsy.com via Nick on Pinterest

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Linocut starter kit back in stock

My linocut starter kit is perfect for the beginner who was to try linocutting. In contains cutting tools, ink, roller and Softcut lino and it comes in a lovely box to keep it all in. Everything you need to start cutting and printing! Linocut starter kit available now from my Etsy shop Linocut starter kit […]

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Linocutboy Live – Jotta residency, pop-up shop and workshops

I am very excited to announce Linocutboy Live – five days of frenzied linocutting activity in a very special central London location. From 24th to 28th March I will be a part of Jotta Live, a week of interactive events and workshops to celebrate Jotta’s 3rd birthday. I will be running drop-in linocut workshops throughout […]

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Linocutboy pop-up shop preparations

In just over a week’s time I’ll be starting my Linocutboy Live residency with Jotta in London’s Soho. For one week only I’ll be running drop-in linocut workshops, giving printing demonstrations and selling my wares. I will post more info soon but for now here are some pics of two of my linocut greetings cards […]

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Linoleum: The Cutting Edge – Bill Fick prints

These stunning linocuts arrived in the post last week from Bill Fick. They are for Linoleum: The Cutting Edge, an exhibition of large-scale linocuts and animations at HemingwayArt next month. The prints are bigger than they look in the photo – that’s an A0 size planchest they’re sitting on! Can’t wait to get them framed […]

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Linocut tutorial – how to print a colour blend

I’ve been printing my Hungry Fish linocut which has a colour blend, or colour gradation, on one of the blocks. This is a very simple printing technique where two or more colours are blended on the ink roller resulting in a striking effect which can be used in a number of ways. Hungry Fish linocut […]

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