And that is how linocut is made! Don't mind tenth of hours of preparing the picture, transferring it to the marmoleum and cutting it. This is my fave part - at least for first two pieces, then my thumb starts to ache from that spoon!
If you wonder what i mean - to make a linocut, you first make a sketch of the picture. Finish it, then redraw it on the material you're gonna carve. May it be wood, linoleum or in my case, linoleum made of natural things - marmoleum. Then you have to carve out anything you don't want printed.
After that, you prepare the pigment, and place it with a roller on the carved marmoleum. Then you place a paper over it and brush over it with spoon. You have to put on extra pressure, so it is sort of exhausting for your thumb. Also, if you put on too much pressure, you'll rip the paper. You have to be very precise, though you don't see what you are doing. After you think you covered every milimeter square of your picture, you take off the paper and voila!
It will reveal all the places you didn't put pressure on correctly. Also, with this, you cannot really put the paper back on the form.
So, each print is different and original. With these handmade print techniques, there's usual limited amount of prints. After it is done, the artist destroys the form, so no further copies can be made. (I give my originals to my chinchillas. They just love the natural marmoleum.)