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Linocut and Reduction Printmaking: Design and techniques
£20.70£23.80 (-13%)
This beautiful book reveals the astonishing flexibility and creative possibilities of the linocut printmaking technique. Written by a leading and innovative linocut printmaker, it focuses on the reduction printing technique and gives detailed, practical help to choosing and using tools and materials, plus generous creative advice on designing specifically for linocut. With over 300 lavish illustrations, it is sure to inspire every aspiring and experienced printmaker to pick up their blade and start cutting. Divided into three parts, this book introduces the reader to the infinite possibilities of working with traditional artist’s lino. Explains the tools and materials you’ll need, as well as vital techniques such as sharpening your tools and installing a printing press. There is instruction on how to draft a design and transfer it to lino, ready for cutting and printing. Finally, there are step-by-step sequences to ten different prints, broken down into layers and showing the build-up of colours.
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Additional information
| Publisher | The Crowood Press Ltd (24 May 2022) |
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| Language | English |
| Hardcover | 176 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0719840317 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0719840319 |
| Dimensions | 22.43 x 1.6 x 26.09 cm |
by MoriniMark
I’ve been making linocut prints for some years, but this book is a revelation. It covers a brief history of linocut printing, explains techniques, what equipment you need, developing ideas and designs for prints, and has illustrated step-by-step examples of making reduction prints, using Laura Boswell’s own wonderful work. I learnt so much from the book that the quality of my prints has improved immediately and i just want to make more and more prints (modest example illustrated). Essential for new and experienced linocut printmakers.
by Cazziek
This book is fantastic. Beautifully laid out, colourful and intelligently put together. A really bonus to anyone starting out in lino printing or wanting to improve their skills.
by Fanoamazon
Love this book, written by an accomplished printmaker
by limner
Although there is a lot of useful information in and lots of good photographs in this book I was a bit disappointed with it. I wanted to understand more about reduction printmaking and the author’s gloriously painterly approach to cutting and inking a block. I was also eagerly anticipating the section on designing for printing.
(I find the all or nothing nature of reduction printing a bit terrifying and find it hard to work out what colours and levels of transparency will work best in multiple layers.)
Unfortunately I will have to continue muddling along in my own way as I didn’t get much enlightenment.
I felt the book fell between two stools- too complex for a beginner but not detailed enough for the experienced. I got a lot more information and inspiration from Nick Morley’s “Linocut for Artists and Designers ” Oh well.
I’m still giving this book four stars in recognition for the huge amount of work that must have gone into writing and photographing it as it is beautifully presented.
by JNew
This text is unbalanced. Lots of useful technical information but insufficient detail accompanies the examples provide in just 10% of the overall text. This means that the complications of thinking in layers, alluded to in earlier parts of the work, are not clarified effectively in the final Part 3. The author assumes to much knowledge on the part of the reader. Part 3 required a more detailed breakdown of inking/printing stages with better illustrations to support key aspects of this part of the overall process. The most important information to those new to reduction Lino cutting just isn’t managed well enough. Disappointing, and, as such, not as useful as it could have been.
by DC
This is a very comprehensive and detailed book, and even after printing for years I still find it useful. I mostly bought it because I was shocked that Amazon allowed a review to call plagiarism just because the front cover has a similar coloured ink to another book (the cover isn’t the same shade or style as the other book but apparently no one can use any shade or red or yellow on a printmaking book ever). They clearly haven’t even read the
Is book at all. Obviously there’s some overlap with other books on linocutting but this one also covers the design process, details of types of paper (including Japanese washi), the reduction process and types of inks and extender etc- things I hadn’t seen covered before and had to find out about the painful way. If you want a book that covers beginner and more advanced techniques, this is it. There are many colourful and inspiring pictures too.
by Smartyfartblast
Eagerly awaited new book on linocut – beautifuly illustrated and a hardback book, so it lays down flat.
Laura Boswell’s writing style is very easy to read and follow – as was her earlier “Making Japanese Woodblock Prints” book.
The example prints are very helpful – I love the Yorkshire Barn series, where an initial sketch produces four very different prints. A limited edition print / book plate is available from Laura Boswell’s website.
Her YouTube videos are also worth watching – especially the excellent “Self-Isolation” series started during lockdown.
by MoriniMark
Received this two days ago and have already read it. I have also read most of the other lino cut books available through Amazon and this is the best by a country mile. No really just read it, do what she says, over and over with a smidgen of your own learned practice and talent and in less than a hundred years you will become Laura Boswell. It really is that good. Oh and it doesn’t matter whether you are a beginner or an improver it’s all written here in a clear concise manner. Just buy this one book.