Lino Cut

Converted a illustration to print using lino..

Linoleum is a material made from a composition of linseed oil, cork, wood flour (a fine sawdust), and powdered minerals such as calcium carbonate supported by a burlap backing combined under heat & pressure to form a sheet. Once a common flooring material, it was broadly replaced in common household use when less expensive vinyl flooring materials became available. The linoleum sold for carving plates used in relief printing has a different composition than the current linoleums sold as flooring.

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Self portrait,

GONG- Trondheim exhitbition

These are being sent to GONG in Trondheim with an exhitibion 20th of october, going to be great..

Seeing the light of day

This is the first time this linoleum cuts are seeing the light of day. You can see three of them on Collettes Cafe, and hopefully the other 7 will come up somewhere else soon.

New linocuts

Ongoing pictures, linoleum, tria and aquarelle, heading to a nice exhibition point. Three separat plates doing a "perfect" print.

New linocut

Todays studio work. Doing more linoleum prints, got hocked, for an exhibition later this year.

Linocut is a printmaking technique, a variant of woodcut in which a sheet of linoleum (sometimes mounted on a wooden block) is used for the relief surface. A design is cut into the linoleum surface with a sharp knife, V-shaped chisel or gouge, with the raised (uncarved) areas representing a reversal (mirror image) of the parts to show printed. The linoleum sheet is inked with a roller (called a brayer), and then impressed onto paper or fabric. The actual printing can be done by hand or with a press.
Although linoleum as a floor covering dates to the 1860s, the linocut printing technique was used first by the artists of Die Brücke in Germany between 1905-13 where it had been similarly used for wallpaper printing. They initially described their prints as woodcuts however, which sounded more respectable.