Beginner’s Guide to Linocut: 10 print projects with top techniques to get you started
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Master the basics and beyond of linocutting with expert tutor and artist, Susan Yeates.
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 also runs the popular 30 Day Sketchbook Challenge, and authored the title Sketchbook Challenge (9781800920453), 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.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Search Press, Illustrated edition (1 Nov. 2018) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 96 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1782215840 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1782215844 |
| Dimensions | 20.65 x 0.81 x 26.04 cm |
by Cathy
I was attracted by the fish on the back cover because I am doing an under water project. As it was cheap and the style looked interesting I bought the book good value for money RRP is £10. Well produced Search book, shiny pages and most pages have 2-3 quality photos. I am not a beginner but a ‘learner’. As such I found the book well worth looking . To see the finished blocks unusual and you can see how clean the cuts are and how they are arranged. It motivated me to go and get new tools, knowing what sizes I should be looking for. The photo technique for designing is interesting. I have developed it further to take images of my design and will then reduce them to the size needed for the final print. It is well written and would be a good book for beginners – better than most! There are stencils for all the projects. or. if you like me, be inspired to be more independent and do my own designing and not trace images from elsewhere. You can see there is something more here than just for beginners! Can’t get over how cheap…. although it is relatively thin.p.s have taken photos of selection of Guylian chocolates and these will make a really good design. Would not have thought about this without having read this book…. went out to specially to buy the chocolates…no other book has done that to me!!
by Catherine Arrowsmith
Having limited knowledge of lino printing, this is a great starters book
by Mrs Julie Clancy
Great book for a complete beginner. I bought a starter kit and this book. Really great step by step instructions and fun projects.
Highly recommended.
by mrs sarah m kelly
Fab
by C.
It’s been so many years since I did any lino cutting that I thought it’d be good to get a beginner’s book.
Thus one is an odd mix of totally basic and a bit mor complex (the bubbles around the whale as a first cut?). I’d have liked to see more about the cutting tools and techniques.
by Amazon Customer
Very useful if new to lino cutting
by Melanie Rae
Great book to introduce you to linocutting..
by Word Soup
Not as good as I expected it to be. The ideas section is ridiculously over simplified, designs are only difficult in that how would I use this drawing of…. a teapot. Hmmm.
I wrongly expected more, and am very disappointed. If I could be bothered enough to return it I would. The author really needs to scrutinise her strategy beyond the money making aspect of writing this book. Sure she will have earned from the sales, but is it that good a book? No. It is not.