my first attempt on linocut printing.

1. I started my first attempt my printing out a silhouette of my husband and me (with no fill, just the outline) that I had made on Adobe Illustrator. After that I trimmed the silhouette to the size of my lino block, size 5x7. I also used a Carbon sheet to transfer my design on the lino block, I also trimmed to sized the carbon sheet.

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2. In order to transfer the design on the lino block,

I started filling the silhouette with a pencil.

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3. I removed the print out + the carbon sheet.

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4. Select what linocut carving tools I wanted to work with.

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5. Start carving the block

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6. Remove excess around my block

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7. Prepare ink area

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9. Ink applied to my lino block.

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9. And voila!, this is my first print.

The only problem I had is that I am not using the correct ink

for this printing method and that is why the print came out smudgy.

Promise to post pictures of my other attempts :)