Hello everyone! Thank you, Jon, for sharing the magic process of block printing.

It is my first linocut experience and it was interesting to go through the printing process from step to step. I'm definitely going to do more.

For my image I took my old drawing of an old Persian wizard carrying a magic bottle.

Magic bottle - image 1 - student project

I worked on it a little to get it more neat and accurate:

Magic bottle - image 2 - student project

I printed it and transferred it to my linoblock with help of soft pencil, like Jon told in his video:

Magic bottle - image 3 - student project

I used a green pen to see the areas that I already transferred:

Magic bottle - image 4 - student project

The sketch is transferred on the linoblock:

Magic bottle - image 5 - student project

I coloured the areas I don't want to cut, with a black felt-tip pen:

Magic bottle - image 6 - student project

I think that my image is a bit compilcated for the first experience with cutting and some things I couldn't do, like nails on hands, they were too small for my cutters:

Magic bottle - image 7 - student project

So, in the end they look like this. The first prints were too light, I experienced with different paints. I realized that gouache works better than acrylic.

The final images. The size is 15cm x 20 cm:

Magic bottle - image 8 - student project

Magic bottle - image 9 - student project

Yulia Drobova

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