Second Saturdays Special Guest Artist Chantal Hildebrand Closing Reception

Linocut printmaking (also known as lino printing or linocut block printmaking) is a printmaking technique where a sheet of linoleum is used as the surface that the artist then carves an image. Woodcut printmaking is one of the oldest forms of relief printing that follows a similar process to that on the linocut process. 

For Chantal, the process begins with drawing the piece that she wants to turn into a print. She redraws her sketch either directly on the linoleum block/piece of wood or traces her drawing on the surface of the block. Using a selection of gouges, she then carves out the areas where she does not want ink, leaving the uncarved areas as the parts that will be printed (the image carved on the block serves as a mirror image of what will be impressed on to paper). Once the carving is complete, Chantal inks the block with…