Watercolour linocut

A couple weeks ago I did a beginner’s linocut workshop at the Slice of Life Art Gallery in East Vancouver. The process was fun and simple: sketch something on tracing paper, transfer the graphite onto a rubber block, then carve out the relief. We stamped our designs on watercolour backgrounds we painted at the start of the workshop. The seagull stamp in progress. I made two designs — a simple…