Making the Prints
Reduction process 1
20/02/2024
Like most of my prints Willows began as a preparatory pencil drawing annotated with notes on colours and tones.
The pencil drawing was then transferred, with tracing paper, onto a block of lino and the image fixed with a sharpie pen.
The block is then inked with the first colour, the paper registered with Ternes Burton pins and the print is passed through the press. With each successive colour more of the block is cut away. This is know as the reduction print process and leaves little room for error!
Willows is printed on Somerset Velvet soft white paper which is slightly textured and helped to achieve the late evening misty effect. This image shows the print before the trees were printed. The
To create the soft reflections in the water I wiped the ink on the surface of the lino to blur the edges. This can be seen on the tree reflections and beneath the distant tower of Glastonbury tor.
The pencil drawing was then transferred, with tracing paper, onto a block of lino and the image fixed with a sharpie pen.
The block is then inked with the first colour, the paper registered with Ternes Burton pins and the print is passed through the press. With each successive colour more of the block is cut away. This is know as the reduction print process and leaves little room for error!
Willows is printed on Somerset Velvet soft white paper which is slightly textured and helped to achieve the late evening misty effect. This image shows the print before the trees were printed. The
To create the soft reflections in the water I wiped the ink on the surface of the lino to blur the edges. This can be seen on the tree reflections and beneath the distant tower of Glastonbury tor.
