Staining and preparing traditional artist Lino for linocut printmaking - an update
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- Опубліковано 11 чер 2024
- The link to my other video on prepping lino is • Linocut: Techniques Fo...
The inks I bought by mistake that work very well are Golden High Flow Acrylic and they come in an assorted 10 Color Set
A note on using acetone - I make sure there's plenty of ventilation in the studio while I use it and I wear gloves. It is very useful for deagreasing lino, cleaning off old oil and water based ink residue from glass and for stripping carbon marks from lino. Incidentally if you use caustic soda for etching lino, degreasing with acetone first really speeds that process up.
I had used double sided red carbon paper to make a tracing on Lino and needed to make some corrections by removing some of the red lines. They would not come off with a bit of soap and water or with an eraser. When I saw this video discussing the use of acetone, I found a bottle of acetone nail polish remover in my closet. It worked like a charm.
Taa Daa 👌
If you work out an easy way to stain Lino for water based inks I’ll be so pleased to know about it. Keep going with the videos, so interesting and I always find something useful to me. Thanks
Always amazing how you come up with some many differnt ideas and techniques. I am so glad that you share them. These are a great inspiration, although I'm not a fan of acetone (having said that, I do have some and use it outdoors when nothing else works). Thanks, cheers Simone
Super useful video, thank you! I'd usually apply india ink to the block with a brush then remove some of the pigment with paper towel, very hit or miss and often too dark - will absolutely give this method a go!
Once again some great information.
Thank you Laura !
The brush mark tip is amazing! I have been looking for a way to make "organic" shapes feel more alive, as after carving I find that the become dull in their expression, this might just be it!
Isopropyl alcohol works ver well as well. :-)
Hi Laura, lovelovelove your work !!! Would the acrylics work with Charbonnel aqua wash printing ink (emulsified oil) ?
I’m not familiar with this ink so you’d need to test it - but I should think it would 🤞
@@LauraBoswellPrintmaker I think it is a French version of Caligo Safe Wash... Cranfield is hard to find in Belgium :(
I'm new to lino printing so you should probably ignore me, lol, but I use acrylic ink to stain my blocks, with water-based printing inks, and I haven't noticed any problems?
I use water based inks for my Lino printing. How is the Lino stained in this case?
Hi Laura...would this work with Akua printing inks?
I really don’t know - I’d certainly run a test on a small sample first🙂