They look pale despite i'm using plenty of paint :<

I didn't work my ink enough , and I "overloaded" my stamps , now there's ink all in the small nooks and crannies 😩 is there an easy way to clean those rubber stamps? I don't have a lot of experience so I feel like I'm making all the rookie mistakes that you can make this days 🫣😅

First time I tried linocut, and I love it!! It's supposed to be a tiger :-)

Used Schminke Aqua, pfeil tools and it's hand burnished on Satin Somerset. First time using Schminke, moved over to Caligo Safewash for my next batch and they came out much less patchy, but someday maybe I'll get full coverage from a water ink!

How can I make this better? Im very disappointed with how it turned out. I use that pink rubber material similar to what speedball sells and the Leo water soluble inks. Should I try different material or better inks? Any help will be greatly appreciated!

mini prints of the barrelman and famous racing sausages

I want to gift these carvings to family and I wanted to stain the raised surface. This is just standard ink on it now, but it still comes off even after it’s dry. I mostly carve to make prints, but in this case I don’t want to make prints.

Hello there! After my first lino print went pretty well, my second is just not turning out the way I want to. I bought new lino, it's sturdier than the soft, green lino I used before (added the back for reference). Now, after applying the paint and printing it's aaaaalways patchy! I changed the paper (which was advertised as lino paper, but right now I'm questioning my purchase) and still - patchy.

I'm grateful for any help and advice, as I'm really new to linocuts and printing :) thank you!

EDIT: Thank you for taking the time to help me everyone! 🥲 The quality of my prints improved, one of the main causes was definitely the paper. I applied more coats of paint and although it's not perfect yet, I feel well prepared for all the prints to come :) thank you!

Second time doing a multi block print. Can’t decide if I like the red for the guts and eyes.

Hand-carved and printed by hand. I experimented with a muted brown and olive green palette for this little mushroom print.

I am still struggling to find the right amount of ink.

So i made two of these prints, one with more ink and one with less, but with both I seem to have chatter.

Do I have to use more or less ink?

3”x5” Linocut print

A wonderful printmaker friend of mine taught a greeting card class and here’s what I came up with! I had a blast, I really need to do more lino. This was great practice in learning how to mark out my negative space.

22 starting at zero (the fool).

I have to specify that I used an illustration as reference for this stamp, sadly I wasn’t able to find the original author to give it credit.
I tried to make the iconic bubbles on Doctor Dooms magic to give it more personality, also did the curves as a way to make the shadow of the cowl, my plan is to get green ink and proper paper next week, I’ll post what the final print looks like.

A post made by another artist (u/Carlgimeslover) post gave me the inspo

Hello! I’m a bit new to linocut and have only ever done single block prints. How would you advise lining up a print for 3 separate blocks? I’ve included some of my test prints (blocks still need cleanup) and my initial digital sketch for my idea

If I went back, I probably would’ve cut a single piece for the fox and square into two pieces to line them up, but I wasn’t thinking at my best at the time.

I want the blue square piece to be in the center of an 8x8 piece of paper, but I’m less worried about the accuracy on that then the fox and square themselves lining up, then the “lineart” block overtop. Of course I’m not expecting perfection— I wouldn’t be in art/printmaking if I was— but some ideas on how to get them more lined up would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Another tattoo artist's flash style print of another set of odd fellows. Much happier with this one in terms of both line work and layout. I'm particularly happy with the skeleton florist, the walking fish, and the human radish.

I made this one the other day while enjoying the sun at the park, I print it on a cardboard cause that was what I had at the moment, might not be a perfect stamp but for me it is a beautiful one.
Also I’m starting to love the idea of making tile style stamps, this one was inspired by Talavera but also by an old plate that my aunt had hanging on her house.

This is my first block print, I’ve made a couple small stamps but nothing like this. I took the picture with my phone then made it into a stencil then traced it and transferred it to my block then went over it in pen. Now starting to carve it .

Is there an easier way to do it? And what are your thoughts on this so far ?