Chine colle (silk collage) linocut or linoleum cut: I learned this process from an amazing artist named Jenny Guske. Artists, today, typically use colorful paper scraps instead of silk . The papers are cut, torn or glued to the main sheet of printing paper and the carved linoleum plate is rolled with ink and printed on top. This print is a particularly ambitious example of that technique.
The basic steps for this print: First, create a registration system with your plate and the printing paper to be used for the finished print… Stonehenge is a good paper and you will print “dry”, don’t soak the paper. Next, I carved the basic image out of linoleum.. what you see in black. I rolled ink on the plate and printed the image onto cardboard or tag board. I cut out the shapes to use as a template on my colored scrap papers (Japanese papers). Once you have registered your paper, roll ink on the plate and lightly print the image. This shows you exactly where to glue your cut papers. After all of the papers are glued down, you are ready to roll out the plate with ink again and print on top of the glued papers and the first image. Hopefully it will be registered perfectly. In my print, the blue and yellow background was done first – surface roll – not part of the chine colle process. All of the other colors in the print are created with cut paper as described above. Each chine colle linocut print will be somewhat unique, depending on the papers you choose (monoprint series).