Little Books of Nudes

I like to make books, I like to go to my printmaking class and I like life drawing although I really struggle with perspective and proportion. These are some of the prints made into books.

Each book is a collection of prints using the same linocut and some experimenting. The books are five and a half inches wide and six and a half inches long. (imperial ruler used to cut out the prints)

Book One

The cover is not a print but a drawing onto interfacing that I used to transfer the image to the Lino. The surfaces have been brushed with encaustic wax which has made the bird bleed a little.

A first print

A ghost print, the plate run through the press a second time without re inking the plate.

Chine colle, the image printed onto Japanese tissue paper that is then glued to printmaking paper.

A mistake page, inadvertently printed onto damp paper which stuck to the plate. I like it.

Predominantly an embossing, the last of the ink squashed from the plate.

A mono print, a free hand drawing into the ink left on the inking surface and the paper placed on top. No wasted ink!

Each print cut out and mounted into onto heavy paper and made into a book.

Book Two

Some of the prints made with a Lino cut plate

Chine colle

Straight print

Ghost print, Chin Colle

Print made using a dry point plate and butchers paper. The paper was treated with encaustic wax, I liked the reverse of the image.

Same image, the right way round, waxed and the dry point image placed over the top.