linocut

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.

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).