Art Instruction Book - Printing - Linocut A creative guide to making beautiful prints - by Sam Marshall

A step-by-step guide on how to create personal and contemporary linocut prints, packed with creative and practical advice to guide and encourage, whether just starting out, returning to the craft or looking to expand your printmaking skills.

A linocut is a relief print created by carving a design into a printing block. It is the uncut surface, not the carved away areas, that provides image when rolled with ink, paper laid on top then pressure applied to produce a print.

18 easy-to-follow projects that can be adapted to suit your own ideas, experienced printmaker Sam Marshall provides guidance through the whole process from  drawing, carving, inking to printing.

Creating beautiful prints and handmade cards, whether working from the kitchen table or a more advanced studio set-up.

By taking inspiration from everyday life, Sam helps to build confidence with observational drawing.

Featuring step-by-step projects, the book demonstrates a range of skills with low-cost materials to produce simple linocuts, reduction linocuts and colourful multi-block prints.

Also learn about more experimental techniques such as combining monoprint, chine collé, jigsaw linocuts and rainbow rolls and pick up handy tips on subjects such as ‘noise’ and editioning prints.

Beautifully illustrated with photographs of Sam’s own drawings and linocuts, and featuring the work of five talented printmakers, Linocut is an essential guide to linocut printmaking.