When I take to people about what I do, they either remember having a go at Lino print in school (and more often than not have very fond memories of it), liken it to potato print or stamping (the basic principals are the same but the skill level isn’t) or refer to it as painting. This article is for the latter group.

While there are a few similarities between painting and printmaking, there are some very big differences. I’ll be expanding on some of these differences below as well as answering the question: What is printmaking? And expanding briefly on different types of printmaking.