Linocut Printmaking Basics

It's time to print your linocut! Learn how to register your paper on your inked block, and how to pull a print by hand, and by using a tabletop etching press.

In this lesson, learn how to add a second block to your image. Watch how to transfer your linework onto a clean linoleum block, carve it, and make adjustments.

Now that you've created your linocuts, learn to ink your reliefs, and press, edition, sign, and clean up your prints in this in-depth printmaking lesson.

Add more dimension and color by painting your linocut with watercolors! Join this printmaking lesson from Diode Press to give your linocuts texture and color.

Join Diode Press to create a three-color print using your linocut blocks and a simple stencil; also, explore other printmaking techniques in this lesson.