Printmaking techniques are so varied and vast. A simple go to printing exercise is to use linoleum plates and carving tools. Often I use several plates and register them in the inking process to get a layers of colors and information on one proof doing several passes. An easy way to do two or more colors on the same proof is to cut several pieces of a finished lino plate before or after carving the image. The following example shows how a plate was carved as a single image then a piece in the middle which described an outline of a ship and its reflection was separated from the base plate by carefully cutting out the shape then carefully treating the edges of both the cut out piece and the base piece for easy inertion after inking and easy removal after printing for the next round of inking.
Glass topped inking table with proof at top left and the base plate and cut out pieced together at bottom left
Detail of base plate (black) and cutout insert (orange?) about 10 x 5 inches after both base and insert were inked separately with different colors.
Upper left shows the base plate and cutout insert separated. The two first proofs had the black too viscous and the yellow was not defined as a color for my tastes. More ink was added to the black to stiffen it and a sienna was added to the yellow to give more definition to the cuts. A series of future prints will probably be printed in different colors in the future.
Good proof showing how strong and aligned the colors are when using the differential inking, in this case with a two color process.