Diane Stinebaugh
Intro to Linocut Printmaking
February 15, 2025
10:00 am – 3:00 pm (1 hour lunch break)
$75.00
ANA Building
300 N. 2nd Street
ANA Studio
Rogers, Arkansas 72756
Come join the printmaking fun! Linocut printmaking has a long history and yet it is so contemporary. Artwork created by using linocut printmaking has a look all its own. This is due to the unique mark making created by using the carving tools to carve the block and then using black ink to create a bold print. The other neat thing about printmaking is that you can print multiple images called an edition. Or you can print greeting cards, or in your sketchbook or incorporated into your paintings, or print on fabric or…. there’s a lot of possibilities.
Linocut printmaking is something you can do at your kitchen table. That’s actually where I do a lot of my craving and then I like to print at the kitchen counter because of the height.
What you will learn:
- How Lino block printing is so different from other artforms
- Carving and using the gouges to make cut marks in the carving material.
- How to plan your linocut print
- Transferring your design
- How to carve your design
- How to prepare your ink correctly
- Inking your block
- Printing your block
- How to create an edition
- How to properly sign your edition.
Supplies needed:
Good basic set
https://www.dickblick.com/products/speedball-water-based-block-printing-starter-set/
https://www.amazon.com/Speedball-Super-Value-Printing-Starter/
If you want more things such as more ink colors, a second block and a bench hook:
https://www.dickblick.com/products/speedball-deluxe-block-printing-kit/
If you want to buy singly or check your art stash
- Gouges = small V, big V and a U
- A handle for the gouges, but we can carve without a handle.
- Soft linocut carving rubber at least 4 x 6 inches, 3 x 3 inches is also nice
- Block printing Inks
- Brayer= soft
Also need:
- A piece of glass or Plexi glass to roll ink on or a bench hook. I use a piece of glass out of an old picture frame that is backed with cardboard and has the edges taped up so I don’t get cut.
- Or you can buy one of these
https://www.dickblick.com/products/speedball-bench-hookinking-plate/
https://www.amazon.com/Speedball-Bench-Inking-Plate-Printing/
Paper to print on:
- Copy paper, sketchbook paper, rice paper,
- I like Yasutomo Sketch Paper. thinner paper works better than thicker papers
https://www.dickblick.com/items/yasutomo-japanese-sketch-paper-48-sheets-9-x-12/
https://www.amazon.com/Yasutomo-Hosho-Paper-Sketch-Sheets/
- Wooden or big plastic spoon from the kitchen is nice for rubbing the prints.
- Pencil and eraser
- Sketchbook or copy paper
Wonderful! Diane is a great teacher and example. Her consistently cheerful and supportive attitude is a boon to artists & students alike. And her art is skillful, fresh & original.
From Patricia Studer
August 21, 2024
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Diane Stinebaugh – Art inspired by nature
Diane Stinebaugh was born in Iowa to parents who loved adventure and appreciated the Arts. Her childhood was filled with canoeing, hiking, trips to art fairs and art classes. She was allowed all the paper, cardboard, glue and colors she wanted. She always loved to draw and make things.
Sometime around the year 2000, Diane started painting in watercolor and never stopped. Diane Stinebaugh is a watercolor and acrylic artist who is inspired by nature. She is best known for her realistic watercolors of animals and scenes she has experienced in her outdoor adventures. Diane enjoys the clear crisp colors of watercolors and the various ways watercolors behave and interact on clean white paper.
Diane is an award-winning artist whose paintings are in collections across the country. She is also a published children’s book illustrator. She taught art for many years in different stars and at Fayetteville High School for 22 years.
Now she spends her time hiking and camping with her husband and also painting, drawing and making things.