Hi Richard, I did an introduction to linocut course at my local craft centre last year. For the first lesson they started us off on thin kiddy craft foam board that you could make indentations in using a ballpoint pen, then inking up and printing. Finding a course or workshop might is a good way to get into linocut because it means you don't have to buy a whole load of equipment. I was gifted an Essdee Lino Cutting and Printing Kit for Christmas and am gradually getting more equipment. I will soon need to get a shed like yours. 🙂 Loving your videos.
@neiljackman2511 hi Neil, thanks for the encouragement, I'm very new to this and hope to improve. I wish you fun and success with your lino. It would be great to show some prints from what I hope might become a group of enthusiasts Regards richard
as a guy who has been doing it for very many years, i reccomend highly a kevlar glove for the left hand, like fish slicers use, has saved me from several bad cuts over the years.
@donsurlylyte hi you are right about cold hard lino. I'm an old graphic designer from the days of using a scalpel all the time, I may well have forgotten starting out. Thanks for reminding me
Hi Richard, I did an introduction to linocut course at my local craft centre last year. For the first lesson they started us off on thin kiddy craft foam board that you could make indentations in using a ballpoint pen, then inking up and printing. Finding a course or workshop might is a good way to get into linocut because it means you don't have to buy a whole load of equipment. I was gifted an Essdee Lino Cutting and Printing Kit for Christmas and am gradually getting more equipment. I will soon need to get a shed like yours. 🙂 Loving your videos.
@neiljackman2511 hi Neil, thanks for the encouragement, I'm very new to this and hope to improve. I wish you fun and success with your lino. It would be great to show some prints from what I hope might become a group of enthusiasts
Regards richard
as a guy who has been doing it for very many years, i reccomend highly a kevlar glove for the left hand, like fish slicers use, has saved me from several bad cuts over the years.
also, warm it up under a light bulb or such, cold lino is harder to cut and knife tends to slip more
@donsurlylyte hi you are right about cold hard lino. I'm an old graphic designer from the days of using a scalpel all the time, I may well have forgotten starting out. Thanks for reminding me