1. What is Lino Printing? Lino Printing  or Lino Cutting as it is also known is a block printing technique.

2. A Short History:  While linoleum was first invented in the 1860s, it wasn't used as a way to print until the early 1900s in Germany, where it was first used for making patterns on wallpaper! Artists ranging from Pablo Picasso to Henri Matisse have made linocuts, and today it is considered a respected art form.

3. How does linocut work?
1. A design is chosen to be printed that is drawn with pencil.  Place the lino face down on the image and rub the back of the paper to get a transfer of the image.  The image will be a mirrored image.

4. 2. ..trace your image with a permanent marker so that it won’t wash off decide what part of your image you want to be white and cut that out first before inking your first color.

5. step 4: ..roll ink over your lino – make sure to not use too much ink as it will fill the part you cut away. step 5: ..press down firmly all over the back of the lino. The arrow shows which side is up. step 6: ..lift to reveal your first layer – light green

6. step 7: ..you now carve out the area of the image that you want to be light green – the trees and grass step 8: ..roll the color ink that you want for your next layer - purple step 9: ..press down firmly and remove to reveal your second color

7. step 11: ..roll the last color on your lino – light blue
step 10: ..carve away the area on your image that you want to be purple -  branches and tree trunk
step 11: ..roll the last color on your lino – light blue 
step 12: ..lift to reveal your final layer – light blue sky.  Let stand to dry.

8. Finished work

9. Materials

10. One sheet of linoleum!

11. Brayer

12. Linocutting tool with an assortment of blades!

13. Ink

14. Permanent marker and a pencil
Band aids and sketches
Permanent marker and a pencil

15. A Printing Press

16. Tips Single color

17. Multi color – 3 colors max

18. Differently shaped linocut blades make different types of cut in the linoleum. Try straight lines and curved, short and long, little stabs, jerking the tool sideways as you cut. Close-together lines (hatched) and lines going across one another (cross-hatching).

19. Examples