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Why We Need The Value Scale To Create Beautiful Color In A Lino Print

Why We Need The Value Scale To Create Beautiful...

Craig Mitchell

In multi-colored linoleum block printing, beautiful and harmonious colors don't come out of a tube or tin. Colors are beautiful based on adjacent colors. It's best to consider colors carefully...

Why We Need The Value Scale To Create Beautiful...

Craig Mitchell

In multi-colored linoleum block printing, beautiful and harmonious colors don't come out of a tube or tin. Colors are beautiful based on adjacent colors. It's best to consider colors carefully...

Block Prints: Behind The Scenes

Block Prints: Behind The Scenes

Craig Mitchell

This is how it starts. I draw a design in reverse onto wood or french linoleum (made for artists). The area I want to print is left intact, while the...

Block Prints: Behind The Scenes

Craig Mitchell

This is how it starts. I draw a design in reverse onto wood or french linoleum (made for artists). The area I want to print is left intact, while the...

The Vision-Reality Gap

The Vision-Reality Gap

Craig Mitchell

Problems are opportunities disguised as disasters. What a difference a day makes!

The Vision-Reality Gap

Craig Mitchell

Problems are opportunities disguised as disasters. What a difference a day makes!

Enter, the frame police

Enter, the frame police

Craig Mitchell

The phone rang. It was Dave Bryeans who I had not seen in such a long time that he had to further identify himself, "...you know, the framer." I detected panic in his...

Enter, the frame police

Craig Mitchell

The phone rang. It was Dave Bryeans who I had not seen in such a long time that he had to further identify himself, "...you know, the framer." I detected panic in his...

From Paint To Ink

From Paint To Ink

Craig Mitchell

With an introduction to woodblock printing in college and after 25 years of painting outdoors, en plein air, I'm now making woodblock prints based on hundreds of my landscape paintings of the...

From Paint To Ink

Craig Mitchell

With an introduction to woodblock printing in college and after 25 years of painting outdoors, en plein air, I'm now making woodblock prints based on hundreds of my landscape paintings of the...