Hello! I am Milena Olga, passionate about engraving and art in general. I am from Cuba but I currently live in Belgium. Here I want to show my creations and share tips and knowledge about the beautiful art of printing. I would love to create a community where we can learn and give each other that soulful support that sometimes the artist and the art needs🫶
This a very good educational video on how to do this. Thank you for showing all the detail. I am a woodcarver and I have all these tools and I've wanted to try doing this.
Thank you very much Liani❤️ Here I used Stencil, the same one used to transfer the designs to the skin and then tattoo them. But I usually do it with carbon paper, you can see the process in my other videos🫶✨
Thank you so much!🫶 Linoleum comes with a light oily protective coating. It is better to remove it so that it fixes the design drawing better, and also so that the printing ink can spread completely. It is important to use fine sandpaper, so you do not affect the flat surface of the linoleum. It is also good to clean with alcohol after sanding.
Te he descubierto hace poco y me encanta tu trabajo. 😍😍😍 Como se llaman las piezas esas metálicas que empleas para sujetar los papeles y que no se muevas?
Muchísimas gracias!❤️ Esas piezas se llaman en ingles “Terner Burton register pins” (las descubrí con este linoleo y son una maravilla!). En la descripción dejo el link donde los compré aqui en Europa, pero son de Estados Unidos, así que se deben encontrar mundialmente. Hay tres medidas de altitud, las que yo uso son las más bajas (1/4 x .055 R)
Hola! Thanks for your appreciation! La Llorona is a mystical entity that takes place in every Latin American popular culture millennia ago, changing the version of the story a little but physically speaking they are all very similar. In this case I wanted to represent the Mexican. That's why I combined it with the makeup of the Catrina or Mexican death, a world icon of that beautiful country♥️
@@Milinoink in Mexico we don’t ever represent la llorona with Catrina makeup. I’m very familiar with the la llorona myth, and the Mexican version of it. I’m from Mexico City, where our version originated. La llorona is usually depicted as a very pale woman dressed in tatters with very long hair.
@@madmex123 Que bien! Entonces podemos hablar en nuestra lengua materna. Nunca he visto a “La Llorona” representada como catrina, sé que son dos personajes diferentes, tanto estéticamente como conceptualmente. Sin embargo tienen una conexión muy fuerte desde mi percepción de un modo totalmente opuesto. Una llora la muerte y la otra la celebra. Ya sea por el accionar o forma de ver la vida cada uno llebamos esto a cuestas, unos mas llorones, otros más catrinas.
@@Milinoink y tienes todo el derecho a representarla como te plazca, solo que, como lo dije anteriormente, en México no combinamos ambos personajes en uno solo. La Catrina tiene sus orígenes en los grabados del dibujante José Guadalupe Posada, a modo de sátira a las clases sociales altas, al llamarlas “Calaveras Garbanceras”. La llorona para nosotros es más bien como un personaje trágico, condenada a vagar por toda la eternidad por haber ahogado a sus hijos y por ende, algo que no es celebrado.
Hi Milinoink, great artistry, and so detailed! I've only just started lino printing and I still can't get my mind around reduction lino prints 😵💫 I guess it will come with time. I hope you don't mind me asking but what is the white powder you use and why do you use it?
Hallo! Thank you so much! It's good that you started. Welcome to this wonderful technique!🫶 To start with reductive linocut you can do it with 2 layers at the beginning. Then you can add more layers. Once you understand it it's not complicated. The white powder is baby powder, but you can use any colorless powder. This is used to keep your hands “clean” and not get ink on the paper. It can also be used in case an area of the linoleum block gets ink stained, you can put a little talcum powder and this neutralizes the inked area and does not stain the paper. It is also used to put on the rollers once they are clean, so they stay better over time and do not become sticky. If the ink is very fluid, talcum powder also serves as a thickener...And so on for many other things. It is very useful!
Thanks so much!🫶 It is traditional brown linoleum. It is a little harder than the rest but this makes the small carved details more resistant to the pressure of the press✨
@@sagazmcz You are welcome! I bought this one at www.lucascreativ.be/ here in Belgium. But I think you can find it at any art supply store. There is also the gray linoleum that is very similar (It is the one I used on my “Wise Girls” linocut, on my page you can see the video of the process) 🤓
First, I really liked the initial drawing, very pretty design. Then I found the crafting very interesting, it obviously requires a lot of patience, which you seem to have, and that was nice to watch. Of course, it's impossible to say that the result isn't beautiful. The materials you have used, the colors you have chosen, the 2 part inking process with the green gradient, even your signature, I just love everything little detail of what you have made here! You have my full admiration. I sincerely wish you a lot of success from your craft because it would be totally deserved! Stay safe! Cheers from France!
@@Milinoink You're absolutely welcome and you really don't have to thank me for anything as I was only telling the truth and being sincere. It's obvious that you've put countless hours mastering your craft and you developed that talent all on your own. So if anyone needs to be thanked here, it's you! For investing so much of your time and efforts to be able to make such beautiful art and for having so much good taste in design, colors and choice of materials, and sharing it all with us! I'll stay safe only if you stay safe! :D Warm cheers from France !
@@Milinoink I didn't have the time before, but I watched your other videos and I have been similarly mesmerized with your creations. Each creation starts with an awesome design full of details added with great taste. Every time you show a strong patience and skills to carve all those wonderful details in linoleum sheets, every time I just love your choice of colors and paper, and the results are absolutely gorgeous, I honestly have no other words. And the golden ink on black paper, wow, the cherry on top of a delightful mountain of good taste! Thanks a lot for sharing all of that with us. I hope you have planned to upload more content in the future as I could easily watch such art making all day without problem (I also appreciated the shots on your dog, the garden with the snow falling etc... You and your husband seem to live in a very lovely place!). But I'm also conscious that it's a lot of work to make a video, so I don't say "you have to!", I'm only saying "I hope you will, and if you do, I'll be there to watch it with attention", that's all ; ) Stay safe and best regards! : )
Thank you so much! This is manufactured cotton paper, very beautiful but a little complicated to work with. It took many attempts to reach the exact humidity and pressure it needed✨
