Below, you can see Sophie’s design of her cat Milo . Making his eyes yellow brings life and energy
to the print.
Karen also makes extensive use of the Chine de Colle
design. She had the brilliant idea of
using cut outs from magazines to provide not only colour but texture to her
prints. In the print below, she has kept
the lines of her linocut very light and
delicate; and used a cut out of flowers from a magazine to emphasise the body
of the bird and imitate its feathers.
Jennifer created a lovely series of butterfly cards using the chine de colle technique. Here she has used origami paper for the wings, creating a beautiful image, with the patterned orange wings contrasting perfectly with the deep blue of the ink.
Ruthie, a 10 year old linocutter, has experimented very
successfully with this technique. She
created a linocut of a sheep with a large ‘blank’ area in the middle. She then used origami paper to produce a
multi coloured herd of sheep, which have
a real impact when framed together.
Here’s how to do it.
1. Use
a draft print of the linocut to produce a template for the area you want to
be covered with coloured paper. In
this case it is the body of the sheep.
Cut out the piece of paper to the shape required. Patterned paper works better if your
linocut is quite simple. Plain
coloured paper works well in drawing attention to a particular part of the
linocut.
2. Ink
up your linocut.
3. Place
the coloured paper front side down onto the inked up lino. Being careful not to shift the paper,
put a few dots of glue on the back.
4. Put
the paper you are printing onto over the linocut and transfer the print as
usual, either using a press or by burnishing it. Carefully
life the paper off the linocut.
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http://www.threebearsprints.com/workshops
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