Be more creative and discover the art of linocut printmaking with expert artisan author Ella Flavell introductory section provides all the basic techniques you’ll need and guides you through the ranges of equipment required - practice projects help build your confidence and develop your own style - architectural skylines, city streets, parks, markets and diverse crowd scenes offer fresh inspiration for this traditional form of visual art - learn about mixing your media and techniques to develop a unique style and approach - gain inspiration for creating your own work and discover the artistic beauty of everyday life in the city Start a journey today and explore your street with Linocut Printmaking in the City to create stunning, relevant and highly original work. Ella Flavell is an art historian and printmaker who has been producing linocuts under the name Burin & Plate since 2016. Her practice focuses on prints of locations of historic and personal significance with an emphasis on pattern and graphic contrast. She had completed numerous commercial commissions both in the UK and abroad designing everything from beer can labels to Christmas cards. Her work has been featured on the cover of Birmingham Design Magazine (2023) and in Carving Blocks: Printmakers and Their Stories (2024), and she has spoken extensively on her practice in schools and at design festivals. Welcome to Linocut Printmaking in the City, a guide to creating linocut prints of the exciting and ever-changing urban environment. This book will introduce you to the key tools and techniques required to make your own prints, as well as providing some inspiration and follow-along projects to help you develop your skills. Towns and cities are an incredibly rich source of inspiration for artists and printmakers, filled with an endless variety of subjects from the magnificent architecture of old buildings to the utilitarian design of modern conveniences, the peace of inner-city parks to the hustle and bustle of train stations and rush-hour traffic. Cities also offer a range of patterns, textures, and a contrast of light and shade that are ideal for translating into print, and which can be used to create both realistic and abstract interpretations of your subject. Since 2016, the urban environment – particularly its historic or unusual elements – has been a key source of inspiration for my own linocut prints. I am fascinated by places that have a story to tell, whether it’s an important event from history or something more personal, such as a memory from a day spent with friends or family. The search for inspiration for your prints (or printspiration!) can take many forms and can even lead to the discovery of new places, hidden corners brimming with beautiful buildings or secret features in even the most familiar of locations. I love that it encourages you to look at things in a new light, to consider composition, contrast, and storytelling – even the play of light and colour on different surfaces. Printmaking can be a slow process, but because of this it is also incredibly mindful and very rewarding – with the bonus that at the end you have a beautiful work of art. The first chapter of this book introduces you to some of the key tools, materials, and techniques used in the linocut process, while the second guides you in applying these skills to your first prints. The third suggests some key sources of inspiration for your prints and how you can interpret different subjects. The final two chapters introduce the use of other materials into your prints and offer some further projects to test your printmaking skills and provide the foundation for future prints of your own.