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do any of you arty people lino cut?
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. |
iv done some lino during school, and i do have some blocks that i can work on
but i havnt done any personal lino prints i dont think i find it as bad as you, there is some really groovy lino prints out there but unfortunately i dont know any artists to tell you |
Lino cuts are appauling, I've been working in an art materials shop for 3 years, we stock all the lino-cut equipment and I don't think I've ever sold any of it on my shifts. So yeah, its unpopular because its rubbish, I realise this isn't what you want to be hearing right now, but there are so many other ways to achieve the same effect.
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Dont get me wrong, I do believe there is merrit in achieving a sense of movement, texture, etc when using lino. But.. I am yet to really see any artist use it in a way that goes beyond limits that appear time and time again when you see any lino print. In reality to me they all look the same.
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I love lino cut. Last year for my major work in art class, I did three lino prints with a Jam theme: one of Paul Weller, one of a traffic jam, and one of a row of jam jars (my teacher thought it was like Andy Warhol's works about mass production). I got good marks for it, 37/40. I should post it in the art thread. I know it can be really tedious and time consuming, but I really enjoy it.
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Id love you to post pics of it!
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its nice. but it still looks like a lino cut. sigh.
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actually woodcut
![]() woodcut looks just like lino: ![]() also woodcut: ![]() ![]() ^^^ you gonna argue with that? |
Its just so.. illustrative. and non representational of my style of drawing and painting. :(
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oh.... if it's personal taste. sure. i don't do them myself.
just sayin... i don't think there are "limitations" inherent in the media...not stylistically anyway. obviously it's hard to get good shading and it sort of precludes fast sketch type stuff. but theoretically... anything that's possible with an engraving is possible with a lino cut. ![]() |
I dont think its possible to get anywhere near as much detail, though..
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no...not in practice... not unless you made a huge one and reduce it to a thumbnail or something... god that would be tedious. how does anyone stare through a magnifying glass to do an engraving and not go crazy?
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The album cover for Thom Yorke's The Eraser is a lino cut.
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you mean block printing?
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haha... make a lino cut that looks like a stencil!!
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I did a long time ago and the results were rubbish.
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i really love woodcuts (not that i've ever done it myself) but i'e done a few lino cuts and it sucks.
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