{"id":1818,"date":"2016-09-07T06:41:48","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T10:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=1818"},"modified":"2017-11-26T20:18:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T01:18:22","slug":"greg-cook-makes-a-linocut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2016\/09\/07\/greg-cook-makes-a-linocut\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Cook makes a ‘Friends Is Friends’ linocut"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s how Greg Cook carved and printed a linocut rendition of the cover of his long comic book “Friends Is Friends,” August 2016. Above: Finished prints hung up to dry.<\/p>\n

\"Transfering<\/a>
Transfering the drawing to the printing block. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Transfering<\/a>
Transfering the drawing to the printing block. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Carving<\/a>
Carving the block. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A<\/a>
A close-up of the carved block. In linocuts, the raised areas print as colors while the cut out parts print blank. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Rolling<\/a>
Rolling blue ink onto the linocut plate during printing. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Rolling<\/a>
Rolling gray ink onto the linocut plate. Paper was then laid on the plate and the image transferred by pressing the two together by hand. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The finished linocuts. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s how Greg Cook carved and printed a linocut rendition of the cover of his long comic book “Friends Is Friends,” August 2016. Above: Finished prints hung up to dry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,107,103],"tags":[19,6,49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1830,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions\/1830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}