demo compares ink efforts with geary

Sunday afternoon flecks of linoleum landed beside the bench hook. Diligent hands grasped the red-handled liner and made repeated dips through the taut golden skin. Eyes flitted between freshly pulled prints of others and their own as each hung side by side in the auditorium. Minds reflected on brayer ink, how it was rolled, how it was applied to the block. How the cut block was not like a rubber stamp that can be dipped into a tray of ink and dabbed on paper. It was not like the potato print one made in grade school. The carved linoleum block was something else. One person concluded she had too much ink on her block. Portions of her detail were covered up.

Double click on each original linocut inking (below) and compare with closeup of Fred Geary wood engraving.

   

Sue Autry of Norborne

Fred Geary of Carrollton

Lorraine Denny of Seward

Karen Firnhaber of Seward

Anna Autry of Norborne

Two minute video. Linoleum block cuts, comparing inked prints, centering ink on cardstock paper at Civic Auditorium, Seward, Nebraska

(Geary images courtesy of Carrollton Public Library, 1 North Folger, Carrollton, Missouri)

ink demo

Seven participants took part in the activity of discovery this morning. Each were handed trial proofs to study. Their observations were shared with the group. 

Click 1 minute video. Participants reported on the paper samples they were handed. Student Maggie saw a person in a forest with green and white colors. Student Linda had a distinctive scene with an ink border. Another saw a field but wondered what the other shapes were about. 

Click 1 minute video. Student Dorothy saw three colors on the print she was asked to study. It has yellow, a brown, and turquoise blue, she reported to the group. Student Carl picked out ultramarine blue and an earth green on his sheet.

questioned
compared
listened
wondered
thought about the image, 
about the artist notes.


Each took turns 
to roll Speedball ink 
on the glass palette 
and onto a wooden block.

Click 2 minute video.

Click video.

Click on two minute video. Student Grace creates monoprint off an uncut wooden block, while Anna makes tiny cuts on her linoleum block.

Three minute video. Student Sue carefully burnishes the original linocut everyone has practiced digging into on today. Her daughter inks her own.

The next workshop will meet Sunday, September 4th, in the Seward Civic Center Auditorium, beginning at 2 pm. The public is invited free of charge.