![Linocut Weekends Featured](https://cdn.tiffinbox.in/web/imager/media/Sides/Linocut-weekends/2336/Linocut-weekends-featured_aef59219cd79fc68a1c219e7bd361110.jpg)
Linocut Weekends
The three of us were in the middle of one of our innumerable work breaks when the topic of linocut came up. I had no clue what it meant and had not even heard of it before then. Dwarka had incidentally bought a couple of linoleum sheets along with a tool set a few weeks back to try it out at home and Sriparna was all too eager to take a closer look at the materials, which eventually landed on my desk too. And so in June of 2016, with a sheet in front of me and a Speedball cutter in my hand, off I went carving, without thinking of what I wanted to make and without first making a rough pencil sketch on the linoleum sheet. Some mountains, a pine forest and the moon, seen through a window, was my first lino-art. That’s what the carved out lino-stamp looked like although in print it bore a closer resemblance to a one-eyed monster with a terrifying set of craggy teeth.
I was instantly hooked; to the way carved out areas unexpectedly managed to come alive in prints through whimsical lines full of character and dimension; to the feeling of old these linoprints evoked; and to the disparate areas of involvement — sketching, carving, printing — this craft requires. Although I haven’t been as prolific as I would’ve loved to, I hope this page inspires me to change that. So keep coming back to check out newer linoprints in future.
![A Sand County Almanac](https://cdn.tiffinbox.in/web/imager/media/Sides/Linocut-weekends/2333/A-Sand-County-Almanac_6407c9c71e0862942c1a0e06ca4208be.jpg)
A Sand County Almanac
Linoprint based on a quote from the book ‘A Sand County Almanac’ by Aldo Leopold –
“For the last word in procrastination, go travel with a river reluctant to lose his freedom in the sea”.
Lino print, Oct 2019
![Coffee And Bagels](https://cdn.tiffinbox.in/web/imager/media/Sides/Linocut-weekends/2334/Coffee-and-bagels_6407c9c71e0862942c1a0e06ca4208be.jpg)
Coffee and bagels at The Arbor Lodge (Portland)
Lino print, Oct 2019
![Pilgrim At Tinker Creek](https://cdn.tiffinbox.in/web/imager/media/Sides/Linocut-weekends/2335/Pilgrim-at-Tinker-Creek_6407c9c71e0862942c1a0e06ca4208be.jpg)
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Linoprint based on a beautiful piece of text from the book ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek’ by Annie Dillard –
“In the blue light I see scratched and peeled stems, leaves that are half-eaten, rusted, blighted, blistered, mined, snipped, smutted, pitted, puffed, sawed, bored, and rucked. Where have I been all summer while the world has been eaten?”
Lino print, Oct 2019
![New Year Card 2018](https://cdn.tiffinbox.in/web/imager/media/Sides/Linocut-weekends/1539/New-Year-Card-2018_6407c9c71e0862942c1a0e06ca4208be.jpg)
2018 New Year Card
Lino print, Jan 2018
![Cook Guide Porter](https://cdn.tiffinbox.in/web/imager/media/Sides/Linocut-weekends/1534/Lino-Cook-Guide-Porter_6407c9c71e0862942c1a0e06ca4208be.jpg)
Cook, Guide and Porter (Himalayas)
Lino print, Nov 2017
![Glengarriff Street](https://cdn.tiffinbox.in/web/imager/media/Sides/Linocut-weekends/1533/Lino-Glengarriff-Street_6407c9c71e0862942c1a0e06ca4208be.jpg)
Glengarriff Street (Ireland)
Lino print, Aug 2017
![Dingle Harbour](https://cdn.tiffinbox.in/web/imager/media/Sides/Linocut-weekends/1532/Lino-Dingle-Harbour_6407c9c71e0862942c1a0e06ca4208be.jpg)
Dingle Harbour (Ireland)
Lino print, Aug 2017
![May2017](https://cdn.tiffinbox.in/web/imager/media/Sides/Linocut-weekends/1546/May2017_6407c9c71e0862942c1a0e06ca4208be.jpg)
2017 New Year Calendar, May
Lino print, Dec 2016
![Aug2017](https://cdn.tiffinbox.in/web/imager/media/Sides/Linocut-weekends/1544/Aug2017_6407c9c71e0862942c1a0e06ca4208be.jpg)
2017 New Year Calendar, August
Lino print, Dec 2016
![Nov2017](https://cdn.tiffinbox.in/web/imager/media/Sides/Linocut-weekends/1547/Nov2017_6407c9c71e0862942c1a0e06ca4208be.jpg)
2017 New Year Calendar, November
Lino print, Dec 2016
![Feb2017](https://cdn.tiffinbox.in/web/imager/media/Sides/Linocut-weekends/1545/Feb2017_6407c9c71e0862942c1a0e06ca4208be.jpg)
2017 New Year Calendar, February
Lino print, Dec 2016
![Quviannikumut](https://cdn.tiffinbox.in/web/imager/media/Sides/Linocut-weekends/1536/Lino-Quviannikumut_6407c9c71e0862942c1a0e06ca4208be.jpg)
Quviannikumut
“Sitting high on a sea cliff in sunny, blustery weather in late June — the familiar sense of expansiveness, of deep exhilaration such weather brings over one, combined with the opportunity to watch animals, is summed up in a single Eskimo word: quviannikumut, “to feel deeply happy.”” — Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams
Lino print, Aug 2016