Lino cut prints

I have enrolled in Dijanne's online linocutting class, which officially starts tomorrow. However, because I'm staying with her and will be travelling for the first 2 weeks of the class, I have started already while there are materials at hand. Above is my sampler stamp.

Of course, once I've done that, I start to play. Here I painted a tree onto the stamp...

..then I borrowed one of Dijanne's linocuts, and started playing with adding colours to the prints. These are 6" by 4" so will make good cards if I cut them out and stitch them.

This has Plum, Red and Turquoise in it.

The paint is meant to be applied with a roller, but I like to do things differently. Here I used a paintbrush so that the brush strokes would show on the leaves. You tend to get a more blobby print, but I don't mind as I think it makes the background more interesting.

Plum leaves with a Turquoise background and Ochre stem.

and finally, this one where I drew leaf veins in the ink before printing. I really like this one.

This is African Painting - Dijanne showed me how to do this - above is her sample.

Then I made this one using her Pomegranate stamp as inspiration. These can be stitched once dry and heat set.