I know folks who buy linoleum for flooring when they find good deals, and use this for carving. For your first linocut, I suggest doing a simple pattern with no positive (left, uncut away) pieces smaller than half a centimeter. This way you do not have a giant piece to work on, but you also won't have to work with itty bitty details. If this is your first linocut, I suggest getting something around the size of 4" x 5". The bigger you go, the more expensive the sheet, but generally they are not too expensive. You can get these at your local art stores such as Jerry's Artarama, or even at generic craft stores such as Hobby Lobby. One can even make several linocuts to be used together to make a print including color, and in some cases (depending on the ink and paper you use) a linocut print can be colored after wards with your medium of choice. ![]() Linocuts generally remind me of illustrated children books, which is a style I very much like. Although linoleum is not quite as durable as wood, you can still make hundreds if not thousands of copies of the same image with a single linocut before it is too degraded to use. Also, it is much, MUCH easier to cut than wood, especially when heated. Why linocuts?: First off, linoleum does not have a grain like wood does, meaning there is no need to cut in one direction. ![]() Linocuts are also very popular in teaching children in schools about the rewarding art of printmaking. ![]() A Short History: While linoleum was first invented in the 1860s, it wasn't used as a medium for printing until the early 1900s in Germany, where it was first used for making patterns on wallpaper! Artists ranging from Pablo Picasso to Henri Matisse have made linocuts, and today it is considered a respected art form. It is a printing method using a sheet of linoleum, in which a subtractive cutting method is used to take away the parts of linoleum where you want to leave the white of the page, and keep the parts you want to be inked! In the result you have a linocut that can reproduce the same image over and over again. What is a Linocut?: Linocuts are very similar to woodcuts. Purpose: The purpose of this instructable is to teach YOU how to make a linocut of your very own.
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