Lino Dino....

.... 1st try at lino cut printing.

Working in a school means I have the luxury of a nice long summer holiday. So anticiapting a 4 week block after the first 2 weeks away I decided to give the Crafty Creative kit boxes ago. I initially stopped the boxes as I didn't have anough time to use most of the things in themand try new things.

So yesterday, I thought I would have a go. I'm a massive dinosaur fan and so though the black and white print effect would look really cool as a dino skeleton.So here's a few photos of the process...

I used this tutorial on how to draw a T-Rex skeleton to help with the inital outline.

Using the finest cuter in the kit I started to do the outline and smalled sections.

Using one of the wider cutters, I dug out the rest of the gaps.

Cover the lino with the ink. Having done a few prints it worked best with quite a thick layer of ink, though some of the effects were interesting with less ink.

Place the paper on top of the lino, press down hard and give it a rub all over the picture area. Peel off the paper and Voila!

I though I would have a go and print on to some decorated papers.

This one is from my Western themed Crafty Creatives box from AGES ago.





These two are from Craft Seller's papers selection.
I thought the contrast between roses and dino might be quite interesting.

And stripes ALWAYS look cool.


In the end i did quite a few black and white prints as well as these patterned ones. Not sure what I will do with them yet, but I think one of them might be destined for a wall somewhere.

I just liked this picture of the ink washing off the lino!