I'd been meaning to have a go at lino printing for years, having often admired other people's work, and it was great fun to finally get stuck in.
For my first go I carved an image based on one of my own paintings from years ago, and ran off a few prints.
For the second image, I tried something new. I had the idea that planning out my design using white chalk on black paper would feel as close as possible to the creative process of lino-carving - (i.e. if I can get it to work using white chalk, then it ought to work as a carved out piece of lino... yes?)
As it turned out, the theory was quite right and I'd recommend it. However I did make a few clumsy cutting errors in this one that stopped the final image from being quite as successful as I'd hoped. Lino is nothing if not unforgiving!
Now I have the bug - I just need to find the time to do some more...
