linoleum print

After relative success deconstructing and reconstructing images with my newly-developed 4-color process and the drypoint method, I felt compelled to do the same thing in my favorite printmaking medium, linoleum. It wasn't as successful as I had hoped, but it was a good learning process.

After revisiting much-loved printmaking methods with relative success, I branched out with experimental techniques and found I much more practice is needed to master them.

I'm up to the fourth color on my latest reduction linocut (two more colors to go). After the blue of the sky was printed, a lot of linoleum was removed, and there's not much area left to take ink because I'm down to mostly accent colors. When I was working with the image, I actually enhanced the image with a relatively saturated violet (because, obviously, as an artist, I have the ability to make nature look even better).