Linocut: A Creative Guide

A practical guide to mastering linocut printing from first sketch to finished piece. Discover 18 easy to follow engaging projects, from simple souvenir prints to intricate multi-coloured designs, that build your confidence and technique. Ideal for beginners, returning artists, and those seeking to refine their craft.

A linocut is a type of relief paint created by carving a design into a printing block, join experienced printmaker Sam Marshall as she guides you through the entire linocut process, from drawing and carving to inking and printing. From your kitchen table, or a more advanced studio set up, learn the magic of creating your own one of a kind prints and handmade cards. Who knows, maybe you'll create something so good it could end up in a museum!

Featuring step by step instructions, Linocut: A Creative Guide to Making Beautiful Prints demonstrates a range of projects that use low-cost materials to produce simple linocuts, as well as colourful prints using reduction and multi-block methods. You will also learn more experimental techniques such as combining monoprint, chine collé, jigsaw linocuts and rainbow rolls whilst picking up many other handy and practical tips along the way.

Beautifully illustrated with Sam's own drawings and linocuts, and featuring the work of five other talented printmakers, in addition to many demonstration photo reference points to simplify the following along process, this book is an essential guide to linocut printmaking.

Sam Marshall is a printmaker living in rural Northamptonshire with her mini dachshund Miss Marple, who teaches at the Royal Drawing School.