Lino Art and Monoprinting
Lino Art and Monoprinting are fascinating mediums because they sit at the intersection of craft, experimentation, and creativity.
With lino printing, students get to experience the physical process of carving into a surface, which encourages patience, focus, and attention to detail. The act of cutting away to reveal a design teaches them about positive and negative space, and the final print is always rewardingseeing a design come to life on paper after all the careful carving is a powerful moment.
For many students, lino art and monoprinting can be especially motivating because they’re hands-on, tactile, and produce strong, visual results that can be shared and celebrated within the classroom and wider community.
Lino Art Print
Printmaking
Monoprinting
Monoprinting, on the other hand, is full of spontaneity. Each print is unique, often with textures and marks that can’t be exactly repeated. This unpredictability makes it exciting, because students learn to embrace chance, happy accidents, and experimentation. Both mediums benefit students because they build technical skills while also encouraging creativity and problem-solving. They teach resilience too—sometimes prints don’t turn out as expected, and that becomes part of the learning process. On top of that, printmaking connects students to a long tradition of art-making, while also giving them the freedom to explore contemporary ideas.
