I am planning on doing both a reduction block & multiple block print in the near future that will incorporate more than one colour into both.
Linoleum block printing multiple colors. Start with the lightest possible value. Linoleum block printing with color by henry frankenfield, 1941, c. I’ve been printing my hungry fish linocut which has a colour blend, or colour gradation, on one of the blocks.
Take this car linocut as another reduction print example. One of my favorite lino cut techniques is the reduction print method, when you use the same linoleum block to print multiple colors. Design, carve, and print one test print of your.
The key to francis kafka's text lies in the wealth and clarity of the material he covers. Place some white ink on a board an add just a tiny bit of a color. Pour about a 10p size amount of printing ink onto a wipe clean surface (i use a sheet of glass), and use the brayer to roll out.
These will use oil base inks on. For her linoleum block prints (linocuts), she cuts the image into sheets of battleship linoleum, rolls ink onto the surface, and prints the image onto paper using an etching press. The block could be foam, linoleum or even wood.
Where the colours overlap, another. Up and down, right and left. Did i use contrasting colors to make the two layers of information discernible?
Materials and tools you need to make a block print. Usually, each block is inked with a separate colour. Separate pieces of lino ‘jigsaw’ together to create one design.