Thanks for your kind comments, people! I use Nerchau water-based block printing ink, by the way, and I do play guitar (hence the nails!)..

@h.a.s.7336

5 жыл бұрын

I spotted the nails, and said,"hmmm, he plays guitar." ; ) Amazing work! LOVE

@JonasVandenBroecke

3 жыл бұрын

How do you get the ink to be so clean? I get like a rough texture. And the ink is not getting all to the paper. Do you have advice? I really want to be able to do this! thanks

@jamesgreen4247

3 жыл бұрын

@@JonasVandenBroecke hi jonas. i use smooth printing paper, so that probably helps, and ink up very carefully with a small roller, so i'm in control of where it is going.. good luck with your printing!

@HushListenLove

3 жыл бұрын

Wow the starling print is beautiful! Thanks for sharing your process James

@jamesgreen4247

3 жыл бұрын

@@HushListenLove no worries! glad you like my work..

How he spoke was really calming and it was enjoyable to see someone like what they do so much.

@vima8680

5 жыл бұрын

and no terrible "music"

He must be a classical guitar player, beautiful prints thank you for sharing!

Your work is beautiful, sir!

My school teacher sent me here as we r doing lino printing at school and this was very helpful! =)

Beautiful work - love your style!

Thank you, your works are beautiful!

Very interesting James. Great images. Cheers!

Very relaxing to watch. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you :)

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing!

Loved this guy on Landscape Artist of the year...Brilliant work

OMGosh that's 10 years ago? I wonder if you still see KZread comments?? Thank you for this video. I am thinking of trying lino cut!

Amazing! Wonderful linoprints

Thank you very much indeed James as somebody has already said..inspiring !

Thanks for the vid, really good introduction to the medium, can't wait to get started. The starling print looked amazing btw!!!

Lovely work! Thank you.

thankyou for such a well presented video on linocut printmaking. it answered a lot of my questions about the technique.and your prints look great too!

An unusually pleasant man to listen to. Wonderful voice and cadence.. and a character that is reflected in his work.

Isn’t life always full of wonders! I too have been painting since I was 5 and have studied fine art in a prestigious program in college (giveaway, I’m American 😊) and throughout all my studies and personal journals never touched printing until a month ago when someone mentioned that his non-artist mother (?) always created her own Christmas cards as linocut prints. Of course I had to see what this ignored part of my art life was really about. And just like you the therapeutic and utterly serene and physical act of carving completely addicted me from the first moment. I can only compare this to wheel pottery in speed (as compared to sculpture). I have, of course, made hilarious mistakes which I have kept as I always tell my painting students they must do. I feel like an art student again. I love your work. I know you didn’t mean to but the comments about detail, size and number of colors sounded somewhat like you were apologizing for the work. It’s like a writer apologizing for writing a short story!!! I follow a gentleman who has been doing traditional woodblock printing in Tokyo for the past couple of decades (he is from Canada). He creates images of samurai warriors the size of an American dime coin!! In 10 to 15 colors and the last one I saw had 17 printing passes! I look at his work and what I see is extreme craft. That’s it. No disrespect to his magnificent achievement. But I looked at your see scape, tiny, two-colored, and had a sigh of joy. That’s what true are is supposed to bring to us, visceral simple, emotion. And when this is delivered in a small real estate, with a few strokes of tool and simple colors, that’s when mastery begins. Remember the most famous piece of Japanese zen calligraphy is a single circle and didn’t Mark Twain say I didn’t have time to write you a short story so I wrote you a longer one? Your work is great, keep it up and add more beauty to this world.

Really beautiful starling print! Thank you for sharing your techniques and enthusiasm - I am just starting to do linocuts and found your video inspiring.

Hey James! I bought a print of yours a few years ago (donkey up a ladder). Thought I'd give lino printing a go myself, and - looking for tips online - came across this video. Cool to see you on here. Keep up the great work!

Gorgeous. Exemplary work from the point of view of the subjects and the compositions chosen, with their illustration-like quality giving the graphic effect allowing this art to shine at its best... I have also liked the maybe meditative feel of this artist. Happy walls that will be so elegantly dressed ! Thank you.

Cracking stuff. I'm doing a lino printing course here in Mexico City next month, haven't done it since school, and can't wait. Yours is the nicest stuff I've seen so far.

Thank you for helpful tips.Nice work.

I just bought my first lino to learn how to cut and looking on utube is v helpfull, love your work - spotted Whitby print, love Whitby.

thank you so much, this has really helped me with my GCSE Art homework :)

Beautiful!

Beautiful artwork!

Thank you, nice video, lovely prints

Beautiful work! I am trying to do some Lino printing at the mo, not something I have done very much of, and found your video just through searching on Google. Very glad I did too! Will def be looking up your blog! Great work!

Hi James, Gary from Michigan, US ... just subscribed to your site and looking forward to watching more of your videos ... I am myself just getting into lino relief printing after a lifetime of acrylic painting on canvas and am really, really looking forward to getting started very soon ... you do very nice pieces and I have a bar to shoot for now ... one last thing, I just this morning ran across this KZread video announcing the acquisition by the British Museum of a bunch or vary rare Picasso lino prints and thought you would like to see them too (unless, of course, being a local you already know all about this) ... anyway, thank you for putting up this site!!

Thanks for sharing man. This is one of the most inspiring lino movies on youtube. Your prints looks realy very good.

wonderful work, thank you for your time great work.

hello James I enjoyed the clip, the prints are fantastic nice work

That’s beautiful

The work is beautiful

Very nice James thanks. I was wondering about the use of the spoon!

Great works!

Lovely work! :)

as i sit here cosseting my lino i find your video most appealing... and in Sheffield too. All good. :-)

fantastic!

Lovely print of the Starling.

Beautiful.

I love doing relief printmaking. I have a big project I want to do, and I am determined to get it done, however I want to see how other people do their prints, and get ideas from them

Very inspiring! I should have been doing this already! :))

sweet colors....

Gorgeous

Anyone in the UK I recommend Hawthorne print makers really good supplies and great prices on lino as you can buy in bulk, happy printing!

@mattakubodimasen10

4 жыл бұрын

Not even in Europe but I felt the need to say thank you :)

thanks, people!...i just use 220g cartridge paper, by the way...

@NegativeClock

8 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I was wondering what paper you were using.

@reimcnugget2283

8 жыл бұрын

Beautiful work!

i need some lino now!

Oh I wish I could see more. How do you use two colours. Do you have to do two Lino cuttings.

HEllo!! i love your work. Is there any chance you can tell me what kind of papper are you using for your prints? Here in Costa RIca, we use Rice papper, but im looking for new ones. Thanks.

Thanks love your prints... will have to have a go at this again... not done it since school LOL! but got the chisels ready! thanks again for sharing your knowledge : )

Perhaps you've already done this, but if not try heating your lino on a hot plate for 30 secs. or so...the lino will be more supple therefore easier to cut, will let your blades stay sharper longer and allow finer more precise cuts.

@lisathaviu1154

8 жыл бұрын

I have frozen my lino so that I could get finer lines. I learned relief printmaking on kiln dried cherry wood and I wanted to get the fine lines possible with wood. Lino works pretty well like this and there is no wood grain to contend with.

@rhizotomy

8 жыл бұрын

+Lisa Thaviu that's a great idea! does freezing the lino do anything to it? Heating it makes it a liitle brittle when it cools down to room temp; so has it changed in any way once it heats up to room temp?

@lisathaviu1154

8 жыл бұрын

Freezing it makes it hard to cut, but allows finer lines. However, I was using wood backed lino at the time. Now, if you want really, really fine lines, you need to try metal engraving!

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great

Thank you for teach..i like yours gubias tool..PLEASE ANSWER

I would love to know what kind of Ink you are using?

This guy finger picks a stringed instrument. This I know for a fact!

This is my homework

Can anyone recommend a good lino?

How deep do you cut the lino?

OHH A classical guitarist! Or a blues picker.

haha a spoon ! I was searching a way to press without a press

thanks James, what make ink do you use ?

@mariolaleeman443

8 жыл бұрын

+kahlo he said in the video - the water base inks, look on Amazon

@kahlospirit24

8 жыл бұрын

there are lots of waterbased inks...some are of dubious quality and don't cover well. which is why I asked

good...a+++++++++++

Those are the eyes of Mr. Bean

watching left handed people work looks so awkward. i like your prints!

Something tells me that this guy also play guitar

well.. linocut... yeah. what about the Japanese woodcut? have you seen it? it sounds like you think that this technique doesn't let you do much with colors or do much detail. I think those are your lack of technique talking..