Intro to relief press printing

Relief Press Printing is the process of taking a medium, removing specific pieces of it so as to make it thinner in areas, and inking the raised portions of the medium to press onto a desired surface.

Overview

The purpose of this workshop is to demonstrate an easy way to create your own linoleum stamps, and more specifically how to apply this to T-Shirts. Through this you can take a linoleum block, carve out any design you wish, and print it onto any shirt that you would like.

Tools

• Linoleum Block
• Linoleum Carving Knives
• Ink
• Brayer
• Press

Resources

Materials

• Printing Blocks
  • DEMCO Unmounted Linoleum
  • Speedball Mounted Linoleum
  • It's cheaper unmounted, then we can use double sided tape to mount it to the piece of Plexiglas we originally had marked out for doing the letter pressing.
  • Scratch Foam Board - there is also the faux linoleum.. it's not a bad price and supposed to be easier..
  • Speedball Speedy Cut Printing Block - speedball rubber, which is more flimsy but supposedly easier to carve and also more expensive...
• Ink
  • [1]
• T-Shirts
  • [2]

Tools

• tips
• handle
• set
• [3] - everything: more expensive per piece, but cheaper then misterart if bought in bulk (and I believe there is a coupon on retailmenot)