All part of the process

It never fails to surprise me when I amat a market and people ask me,"so where to you buy the stamps from", or I get a disbelieving "you do the drawing , carvings and printing" ?
I use to get a bit upset about this but it doesn't bother me now as I understand if you are not into printmaking you might not know the steps that you might go through to get to a final product.
So I thought I would post some new photo of some new prints that I have been working on today.
I hope you like them
Narelle x Most of my linocuts start their lives as a drawing in my little sketcb book but some do get drawn straight on to the block of lino I really need to get into the habit of drawing in my sketch book though so that I have a record of the original drawings .
The next step is to transfere the drawing to the lino block using tracing paper I then draw over the image with a premanent marker as not to loose the image as I carve it out.

Once I have started carving my design I periodically do rubbings to see how it is all looking and I can make adjustments as I go in a way, of course I can't change what has already been carved but I can envisage what will happen next.
So basically this is how I make a lino print the last step is to print either using my little table top press or by using a baron which is a small disc shaped pad that you rub on the back of the paper to transfere the image from the block to the paper