2. The first relief prints can be found in cave paintings. Early man would dip his/her hands in pigments then touch the cave walls. Your fingerprint is an example of a relief print even a muddy footprint can be considered a relief. Early civilizations used of round "cylinder seals" for rolling an impress onto clay tablets goes back to early Mesopotamian civilization before 3,000 BC. The earliest woodblock printed fragments to survive are from China and are of silk printed with flowers in three colours from the Han dynasty (before AD 220 ). In India the main importance of the technique has always been as a method of printing textiles, which has been a large industry for centuries. In late 10th century China the complete Buddhist canon Tripitaka of 130,000 pages was printed with blocks, which took between 1080 and 1102, and many other very long works were printed. Block-books, where both text and images are cut on blocks, appeared in Europe in the 1460s as a cheaper alternative to books printed by movable type.

3. Linoleum was a 20th-century development in the art of relief cuts. The linoleum block consists of a thin layer of linoleum mounted on wood; in this the design to be printed is cut in the same manner as for a woodcut. The advantage of linoleum cuts lies in the softness of the material and the consequent ease with which it can be cut.

4. Irving Amen, American artist Valenti Angelo, American printmaker & illustrator Walter Inglis Anderson American artist Sybil Andrews English/Canadian artist Georg Baselitz, German artist Angel Botello, Spanish-Puerto Rican artist Carlos Cortez American poet and artist Stanley Donwood, British artist (most famous for his work with British band Radiohead). His work for Thom Yorke's album The Eraser was originally done in linocut. Bill Fick, American printmaker & illustrator Jacques Hnizdovsky, Ukrainian-American printmaker, painter, book illustrator and ex libris designer Henri Matisse, French painter Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter Cyril Edward Power, British artist Ken Sprague, English artist and activist Folly Cove Designers American design collective John Paige English artist and member of the Society of Wildlife Artists Angie Hani artist in the American International School Of Kuwait, Famous Artist M. C. Escher, Dutch artist known for his mathematically inspired works John Steins, Canadian artist Mark Andrew Webber, British Artist, Most famous for his Linocut Map Series of different cities. Also created the New Media Technique of Linomation, which is Hand carved Animation from linoleum.

7. housewife.splinder.com/archive/2003-12

13. www.patsnyderartist.com/patsnyder_linocut1.html

16. Run, Rabbit, Run Reduction linocut – 5 colors Edition of 14 Image size 9" x 6"

17. A bowl of rice, with chopsticks. Linocut Print, 2004.

18. Chatter on the Line - Linocut Print

19. edition consists of 30 prints on white BFK Rives 185 gsm paper, hand printed by the artist with Daniel Smith black block printing ink, using an antique hand press

20. http://www.flickr.com/photos/olivernorton/361338443 3/

21. Dinghy Race - Linocut - image size 14.5 X 9.5 inches edition 25

23. Reem Hashim, printmaking, ''Self-Portrait,'' 8th grade, Key Middle

26. benjaminbillingsley.com/architecture

29. Single block relief print, Ed 10, 2006 3x4" unframed $55 Amie Roman, AFCA - Printmaker

31. Helen Ogilvie (Australian, 1902-1993) The Black Rooster, c1936. Wood engraving, ed. 47/50 - 7 x 7cm. Printed on tissue.

32. 8 by 10 inches. Ed of 30.

34. The FuneralThe Funeral 2007 Reduction Linocut

35. Janet Brooke, Canary Wharf, head in clouds, 1999. relief print

37. Item # 573 - Price $90.00 Artist: Natalia Moroz Title: "Danaya" Medium: 2-Plate Linocut Edition: 18/50 Image Size: 8” x 10” Paper Size: 11” x 14”

38. cloudery.typepad.com/mvsevm/printmaking/

39. Bighorn Ram Reduction linocut – 2 colors Edition of 12 Image size 12" x 12"

40. Artist: Natalia Moroz Title: "Distortion of Memory" Medium: Multiple Plate Color Linocut Edition: 7/27 Image Size: 12" x 9" Paper Size: 16 ½" x "15 Item # 578 - Price $270.00

41. Elizabeth's Orange by Jeff Shrensel

43. Frustration by Brooke Sajer

47. Head, lino print with chine cole, S. Paik

48. Blue cushion 9 block linocut

49. Dabbling shelduck 9 block linocut

51. myprintmakingjourney.blogspot.com/2 009/11/dem...

53. 3 of a limited edition of 20 prints. The image is 10 1/2"x16 1/2" and the paper size is 13"x19"It is hand printed on acid free BFK Rives Lightweight paper,

55. “Inés” Linoleum relief print, Spring 2008 This print is based on a photograph I took at Mission Santa Inés in Solvang, California.

57. Reduction relief print, edition size: 10, 2006 3x4" unframed $65 Amie Roman, AFCA - Printmaker

59. Bawden, Edward (1903-89) The Pagoda (linocut)

60. Flight, Claude (1881-1955) Speed 1925 (linocut)

61. Aertsen, Pieter The High Swing c.1933 (linocut),

63. The Merry-Go-Round, 1930

64. Whence and Whither? c. 1930 (linocut)

65. Acrobats

66. The Tube Station c.1932

67. The Tube Staircase 1929 (linocut)

68. The Giant Racer c.1930 (linocut)

70. "Emu", by Rachel Newling. Hand painted lino cut 49cm x 34cm Limited edition (50)

71. "Gymea Lilly" by Rachel Newling Hand painted lino cut 73cm x 52cm Limited edition (50)

73. Sacred Ibis 40.5x48cm Ed. 13 $975 GST

74. Weightless 25.5x30cm Ed. 12 $750 GST

75. Tea Trees: Lake Ainsworth 30x36.5cm - Ed. 50 $500 GST

76. Sydney Harbour View 42x55cm - Ed. 50 $825 GST

77. Paint Brushes Hand Colored Linocut 35x19.5 cm Ed. 50 $500 GST

79. Blue MonoprintPipe AquatintAndrew's ImageRelief and Stencil Portfolio BoxSoftground / ColleDigital Portrait Small BoxSoftground / Colle 2 Katzdorn, hand colored Galvez Open Bite, etcGalvez Open Bite, etc. Asabedo, Viscosity Reichl, Aquatint www.ehow.com/video_4949646_relief-printmaking...