T stands for.....some linoprints

After starting over with linocut about two years ago (like many of us I did that back in school and then never again), I always had problems getting the print rubbed on the paper correctly, so it looks nice. Rubbing with a wooden or metal spoon or a felt baren wasn't doing the job for me good enough. And the time it takes. OK, so what? Get a press? But most of these presses cost a small fortune. Then a fellow printmaker recommended Woodzilla presses to me. I bought a little little A5 one in blue (see below, photo by Woodzilla).

Let's make it short: I LOVE the press! Makes printing much faster and the prints are cleaner than the ones I made by hand. Here are some card sets I made: 

Insects with and without colored accents.

Some beach themed cards with additional stamping and a colored sun.

And than I was even brave enough to start a project I was eyeing for a long time: To make one of my watercolors into a jigsaw multicolored print block. So I chose my kingfisher paiting.

Once the block is all finished, ....

....you must be brave and cut it into pieces along the chosen lines.

I only had the time to do some test prints so far and printing with acrylics isn't ideal, even if you mix the colors with a retarder to make them dry slower. So the first colored print was damaged, as the block for the blue cap of the kingfisher stuck to the paper and damaged it, when I pulled th print. But you get the idea. I already oredered some linoprint colors and will try again.

For the drinks and to qualify for Bleubeard and Elizsbeth's T party,  I have a question for you? If you drink tea, do you also drink cold brew teas? I tried some of them, but not all are good. The one pictured taste very minty, but like chewing gum, a bit artificial.

Linking to Altered Book Lover for T stands for....! Happy T Day!

 

T stands for....a new cup (paired up with Christmas card printing and winter gardening)

I finished my Christmas cards and am now looking forward to sending them out to some lovely people. This year I printed them with different techniques like linocut or gelli plate. I found this fun video of creating printing templates for the gelli plate with a hot glue gun. :)

I'm always searching for veggies that can be planted in the garden during winter. Winter here doesn't bring as much snow and cold temps as it did 10 years ago, but it can get quite frosty on some days. So here we have a winter pea, which will bring peas in early spring, planted in November.

There's some winter garlic, which will be ready for harvest in June/July.

I also have some broad beans (Vicia faba), which can deal with low temps and will be ready for harvest in May/June.

And to qualify for "T stands for...." with Bleubeard and Elizabeth, I'll show you a tea can I made at a team building event in office. Was a lot of fun and ofc mine has to picture a bird.

I'll enjoy some tea or coffee from this one in the very near future.

Mehrfarbiger Linoldruck/Multicolored linoprint

Während ich meine Weihnachtskarten gedruckt habe, kam mir die Idee, dass ich für die Tannenzapfen ja einen Hintergrund schneiden und dann einen mehrfarbigen Druck machen könnte.

While printing my Christmas cards I had the idea of cutting a background for the pinecones and try a multicolored print with them.

Die erste Herausforderung war, alles ,,richtig herum" zu denken und aufzuzeichnen. Jeder, der schon mal Linoldruck gemacht hat, weiß genau, was ich meine. :D

The first challenge was to think and draw everything "the right way". Everyone who made linocut at least once, knows exactly what I mean. :D

Passt schon mal sehr gut.

Fits perfectly.

Finde die Zapfen auch einzeln gedruckt sehr schön, vor allem in braun.

Really love the pinecones printed in brown.

Ich habe einige Farben ausprobiert.

Tried some different colors.

Aber so ganz zufrieden bin ich mit dem Linoldruck für den Hintergrund nicht. Eine Bluesky-Followerin hat mich darauf gebracht, es mal mit Siebdruck für den Hintergrund zu probieren.

I'm not completely happy with how the linoprinted backgrouund looks. A follower on Bluesky suggested, that I should try a silkscreen printed background.

Aber nichtsdestotrotz hat mir der Druckabend im Keller eine schöne Ausbeute an Weihnachtskarten gebracht.

But neverthelesss the printing evening in the basement gave me some very nice Christmas cards.

Wie sehen eure Weihnachtskarten dieses Jahr aus?

What do your Christmas cards this year look like?

 

Linolschnitt für Weihnachtskarten/Linocut for Christmas Cards

 Hallo zusammen,

einige Zeit nichts gepostet, also wird es höchste Zeit! Wie sieht's bei euch mit den Weihnachtskarten aus? Schon angefangen? Ich habe die letzten Jahre immer welche gemalt und dachte, dass ich dieses Jahr mal welche drucke. Also raus mit den Linolmessern und ran an die Platten.

Hey there,

long time no see. Have you already thought about Christmas cards? Or have started making them? For the last years I mostly painted them, but for this year I thought about printing some. So I pulled out my linocut tools and some linoleum sheets.

Zuerst mal eine Skizze.

First there's a sketch.

Linolschnitt macht süchtig. Man kann nicht mehr aufhören, wenn man einmal angefangen hat.

Linocut is addicting. Can't stop once you started.

Erster Probedruck des Bäumchens.

First test print of the small tree.

Eine weitere Idee für eine Karte. Daneben sind noch zwei Lesezeichen zu sehen, die ich dann mit Aquarellfarben gestaltet habe.

Another idea for a Christmas card. Besides are two books marks, I paiinted with watercolors later on.

Das in Linol geschnittene Design.

The design cut from the linoleum sheet.

Und ein Probedruck mit farbig gestaltetem Hintergrund.

And a test print with colored backgrounds.