New Book Cover Prints

I have been working on a three colour lino print of birch catkins for a square format book. As I will want to produce a reasonable number of these if they are successful, I didn't want to use the reduction lino cut method, as this would mean loosing the block once the prints are finished. I therefore produced three separate blocks, one for each colour.

I drew the image onto the first lino and cut the parts that would be green.

Once this was done I offset the image in black onto two more lino blocks. I did this by printing the image onto acetate, then quickly printing the still wet acetate onto the new lino. This meant that the image was still the correct way round to cut the other two blocks.

I cut the second lino for the yellow sections of the image (above) and the third lino was cut for the brown sections (below).

I have produced some proof prints onto book cloth. The colours are not right yet, but I am getting better at the registration. Still some work to do though to get the image as I want it.

After removing some areas of the green lino around the twigs and catkins, I then reprinted onto different colour book cloth. Being happier with the results, I made up a sample book.