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MY FINGERS in my student days used to be blackened more often than they are now with printing inks. I studied at the London College of Printing (these days renamed the London College of Communication for some unknown reason...) and in between my Book Arts studies I enjoyed my days in the rooms of old presses, making, amongst other things, woodcuts and linocuts and collograph prints (a sort of poor man's etching).
So I was happy to be embroiled with roller and linoleum again today for a wee project for my brother and his lady who are soon to be man and wife. They are an artistic pair with hands designed for handmaking things, and wanted their wedding invitations to be hand printed. They had in mind a sort of tile design with two birds and some flourishes. So here below follows my little adventure in linocutting.. using a wonderful Japanese Lino, which is in fact a two-coloured sort of plastic that cuts like butter and shows up helpfully where you have and have not cut.
I will now send the lino plate to the happy couple who no doubt stand rollers-at-the-ready to print out their dozens of wedding invites in whichever colours they choose.
In between the two neck-craning birds are two wedding rings.
This last image can be seen larger if you click on it
