Lino Printing

Crossmaglen students’ have been working on lino printing for art with Mrs Peart. We have to use special tools to carve our patterns out of the lino. This is how we did it…

Lino Printing Instructions

Resources: Lino tile, 2 rollers, HB pencil, printing ink, paper

1. We drew an insect on a piece of paper using HB pencils.
2. Then we put the lino on the paper and used sticky tape to secure the paper.
3. We turned the lino over and shaded darkly over the paper which printed the picture onto the lino.
4. After that we pulled the sticky tape off and started carving on one side of our picture line. We repeated this on the other side of the picture line.
5. You have to be careful not to dig too deeply so use the v tool to carve around corners and be gentle. Make sure you always keep your hand behind the tool so you don’t stab yourself.
6. When finished get your special ink, roller and lino. Roll the ink until it becomes sticky (tacky).
7. Roll your roller over the lino tile and then place paper on the tile very carefully so it doesn’t slide!
8. Then roll your clean roller over the paper firmly and gently remove the print
9. Place print to dry
10. Wash lino tile with water

Brooke