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"A linocut is a relief print created by carving a design into a printing block. It is the uncut surface, not the carved away areas, that gives you your image when you roll it with ink, lay paper on top then apply pressure to produce a print. With 18 easy-to-follow projects that can be adapted to suit your own ideas and skill level, experienced printmaker Sam Marshall guides you through the whole process of creating your own beautiful prints whether...
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Teaches beginners and experienced artists alike how to create their own printing blocks and patterns, and features artwork from block print artists around the world. Learn to create classic block print patterns for greeting cards, wallpaper, book illustrations and more with Andrea Lauren's easy step-by-step instruction! Artist and Designer Lauren shows you simple techniques for creating your own printing blocks out of art-foam. With no cutting and...
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"In the late 1950s, designer, educator, and historian Rob Roy Kelly began collecting and researching nineteenth-century American wood type after founding the graphic design program at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. His research culminated in his 1969 book American Wood Type, 1828-1900: Notes on the Evolution of Decorated and Large Types, and the collection forming the basis of his research grew to include nearly 170 faces in a variety of sizes...