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    Beginner's Guide to Linocut
    Beginner's Guide to Linocut
    Beginner's Guide to Linocut
    Ebook257 pages45 minutes

    Beginner's Guide to Linocut

    By Susan Yeates

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    Linocut and screenprinting have undergone a resurgence in recent years. This book teaches the basic techniques for learning to make your own prints under the guidance and tutelage of expert teacher and artist Susan Yeates. Susan, who runs her own print business, Magenta Sky, explains the rudiments of linocutting, and guides you through ten practical and attainable projects including greeting cards, artworks to frame, labels for jam jars, seed packets and bags or tea towels to print and give as personalised presents. There are handy tips and suggestions throughout the book and each project begins with a list of tools and materials needed.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateNov 1, 2018
    ISBN9781781267172
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      Beginner's Guide to Linocut - Susan Yeates

      SUSAN YEATES is a printmaker, tutor and published author of best-selling, self-published guides to linocut and printmaking.

      Susan has been printmaking since she was at school. She obtained a printmaking degree from Loughborough University in the UK, and has been teaching printmaking courses and workshops since 2003. As well as spending time creating her own prints and drawings, Susan is a qualified yoga teacher and has a passion for combining mindfulness and art.

      Susan lives and works in Surrey, UK, and continues to teach printmaking.

      First published in Great Britain 2019

      Search Press Limited

      Wellwood, North Farm Road,

      Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN2 3DR

      Text copyright © Susan Yeates

      Photographs by Paul Bricknell

      at Search Press Studios; with the exception of page 49,

      centre left, and page 53, top left and bottom right –

      by Susan Yeates.

      Photographs and design copyright

      © Search Press Ltd. 2019

      All rights reserved. No part of this book, text, photographs or illustrations may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means by print, photoprint, microfilm, microfiche, photocopier, internet or in any way known or as yet unknown, or stored in a retrieval system, without written permission obtained beforehand from Search Press.

      Print ISBN: 978-1-78221-584-4

      eISBN: 978-1-78126-717-2

      The Publishers and author can accept no responsibility for any consequences arising from the information, advice or instructions given in this publication.

      Publishers’ note

      You are invited to visit the author’s website at:

      www.magenta-sky.com

      Suppliers

      If you have difficulty in obtaining any of the materials and equipment mentioned in this book, then please visit the Search Press website for details of suppliers: www.searchpress.com

      All the step-by-step photographs in this book feature the author, Susan Yeates, demonstrating linocut techniques. No models have been used.

      Templates for the ebook edition

      For the printable versions of all the templates in this

      book, please visit:

      www.searchpress.com/beginners-guide-to-linocut-ebook

      DEDICATION

      I dedicate this book to my daughter and inspiration, Ariana Gloria.

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      I would like to thank everyone who has ever supported me in my artistic projects, bought my first linocut book or attended a printmaking course with me. Without this enthusiasm for what I do, this book would not exist.

      I would like to thank Ochre Print Studio for the use of their studio space in Surrey, my printmaking tutors for their wonderful tuition and my Sewing Bees for their support in all things creative.

      I would like to thank all the wonderful people at Search Press for making this such a fun adventure into linocut printing (fuelled by very strong coffee). But most importantly, I would like to thank my family and friends for their ongoing support, patience and storage of printmaking materials in their houses. And finally to Edison Fernando for the endless rescuing of linocut shavings from our daughter’s mouth and the never-ending supply of love and encouragement.

      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      How to use this book

      What is linocut?

      The art and use of linocut

      Tools and materials

      Your workspace

      Techniques

      1. Draw

      2. Cut

      3. Print

      4. Repeat

      Projects

      Templates & motifs

      Index

      1. Pattern sampler 36

      2. Dragonfly quartet 42

      3. From photograph to print 48

      4. Printing text 54

      5. Two-tone teapot 60

      6. Wrapping paper 66

      7. Greetings cards 72

      8. Seed packets 76

      9. Jam jar covers & labels 80

      10. Fabric wash bag 86

      INTRODUCTION

      I have a confession: I love linocutting! I love producing my own prints, teaching others how to make linocuts and also writing about it. This is my second book on the topic: the first, my self-published title, Learning Linocut, became an Amazon bestseller. This came as a surprise to me, as the main aim of the book was to bring together a number of factsheets that I had handed out to students at my workshops. Little did I know that I would have people from across the world reading about, and learning, linocut and also sharing their fabulous work with me as they progressed.

      Seven years later, I have put together a second book on linocut, this time providing beginners with set projects to work through. These projects are based on exercises that I have shared with students in workshops, which have helped them develop their skills.

      I find that many people who come to linocutting for the first time encounter a creative block at the start

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