Spring birdy lino print / design

Hello friends! Sharing a print I made earlier this week which I quite like, and which looks quite pretty transformed into a pattern for interior furnishings..

Hand-pulling the design!

Et voila the final print!

Surface Pattern Design development for homeware and furnishing.

Click on the images below to see a few more of my recent linoprint designs..

          

New lino-prints and block print designs

Using my Block Print Pattern Board on Pinterest as the start of my design process, I was inspired to start this collection of block print patterns. I designed and cut the block using traditional lino printing tools and hand pulled the final prints, ready to be scanned and reworked into surface pattern designs.

The prints drying out in my studio.. 

 A couple of the designs which have developed from the original prints.

 

Christmas lino print cards

This years' lino printing efforts! Slightly wonky, but haven't yet resorted to buying them!

 Cutting the block..

    The printing process: rolling out the ink onto a glass sheet and hand-pulling the prints.                

Devon Allotment Lino Print

So, I've been thinking about this lino print design for a while, and thought it was high time to get it out on paper. The idea was really to immortalise an image of my sister and her husband's cottage garden in Ashprington, Devon. They have a very cheeky cat called Toby, who has made an appearance and here is the story and process of the design...

 

 

 Et voila, the finished print! Soon for sale on my Etsy Shop page!

Leighton House lino prints

I saw this done on one of my favourite blogs Mangle Prints, and thought it was a great idea to track the printing process through from the initial drawings through to the final print. In this case, I think I likes the painting on lino better than the final thing, so maybe more work next time with details.

The initial idea for the print came from the Leighton House drawings and another I did a couple of weeks earlier..

 

From initial drawings I transcribed to tracing paper, then straight onto the lino. From there I worked out the light and dark areas by painting onto the lino with white acrylic. This gives you more of an idea of how the final print will look - and finally carved the block.

    The final carved blocks, ready for printing..  

Seasonal card making

So Christmas came and went very fast, I barely had the time to make my cards and send them out in time! These little cards were hand-pulled lino prints, cut and pasted onto brown Kraft card. The partridge in a pear tree design, and Joyeux Noel motifs were from my imagination. If you were wondering where this amazing dresser is, and the location of some of my other pics - it's mister Tom Green's beautiful cottage in Ashprington, Devon!

    

I thought I'd sneak in some of my 2010 card prints. I was a little more organised this year with two colours and a myriad of colour combinations. The prints were hand cut and mixed, the same as this year. One was supposed to look like a traditional book plate and the other a fairisle pattern, both from my imagination.

Ornate pattern print

Despite the box full of cards in the top image, I only ever pulled off a couple of prints from this lino block. It unintentionally ended up looking like old wallpaper, which I like. The design was drawn very abstractedly from some floral photograph sourcebooks. I always find them a handy source to rootle through and find inspiration! This particular one is for sale on etsy: http://www.etsy.com/shop/clarethereseprints

Rose pattern cards

These little cards were very loosely based on photos in a rose pattern source book, I made lots of these and some can be found on my etsy pages: http://www.etsy.com/shop/clarethereseprints

Lino printing blocks

Some experimentation and recording of my printmaking exploits, I sometimes think that the blocks are nicer than the final prints!