Lino with added Funk

Saturday 9th March 2024

9:00 - 16:00 GMT

1 hour lunch break, 2 x 15 minute tea breaks.

Cost does not include materials. Materials list at the end of the description.

Zoom meeting code alongside preliminary workshop notes will be emailed 1 week before the date of the live session.

Course Outline

This workshops will look at how we can put the zing back into traditional relief lino. Working with the relief carving process, we will work on hand printing effects, unusual tool choice, viscosity techniques and generally a lot of fun rule breaking to turn lino into something truly extraordinary and beyond the standard neat edged cut.

The workshop will be using hand printing rather than presses and is completely accessible if you are at home on the kitchen table. We will be working in both monochrome and a limited range of techni colour. The workshop will focus of creating unique prints that celebrate lino as an expressive artform.

Materials

Traditional jute backed lino (if you wish to work on soft cut, flooring etc then all the techniques will be transposable, but traditional lino is biodegradable!) 4 sheets the same size.

Paper no more that 120gms to hand print with. A Japanese Washi between 29gms and 40gms is perfect for hand printing. Make sure you have a good batch.

Printing inks. I use traditional oil based inks.

Clean up facilities for the ink of your choice.

Printing roller/brayer.

Area to roll out ink (old picture frame glass, perspex...)

lino carving tools

Any other sharp household items - drills, graters, hand engraving tools, nails etc

Hand printing barren, ideally a wooden spoon.