Combining two types of printmaking

Mono-printing and linocut are two of my favorite printmaking methods, so what could be better than trying to combine them?

I start out with planing my linocut, passing the design to the lino through carbon paper and applying a soft wash of Indian ink so I can see well the areas I need to carve out.

After carving out the lino, I did a test print to see if the design was more or less as I had planned it. I could then further carve the block, since there were some areas that I still wanted to remove.

Making the mono-prints using a gelli plate and Akua Inks:

I then align the linocut with the mono-print and turned the linocut and paper around to be able to print.

It's also possible to use linocuts directly in the gelli plate to get interesting prints. The one below was obtained by pressing the linocut into the inked gelli plate and pressing the paper against the gelli plate to obtain the print (after removing the linocut).

The final prints trimmed and finalized:

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