Ice Cream - 20x16" - 14 Color Reduction Linocut
This is the linocut that literally wore me out. After a full year of a start, a failure, start, another failure, a start and finally a finish...I can say that I was really tired of working with this piece. The same subject for just over a year was a bit difficult to work with from time to time and I'm happy and proud to say that I've finally completed it!!
For those a little late to the history on this piece...this sign used to hang on Disney's California Adventure Catch-A-Flave ice cream shop. I had been looking to do an ice cream based neon linocut for my wife and had discovered previously that this particular one existed. We visited Disneyland in September of 2017 and I finally got a picture of the ice cream cone that I wanted to use as subject matter. Unfortunately for me, though the day was sunny, we were not at the sign during a good time of day. In my photo, the sun shines directly on the side of the sign and not on either of the two large surfaces.
It took me some working and studying of other similar styled signs to come up with my own version of the shadows. Most of the shadows were created by just placing my pencil drawing back on top of the lino and off setting it from the design and transferring the areas of the drawing that corresponded to the neon tubing. It works pretty well for the lower half, but the actual "ice cream on the cone" was a bit more problematic. I noticed on other images I found online of this sign that the neon up top created completely different looks depending on where and how the sun was hitting the tubes.
I wound up using a combination of my imagination, my transfer process, a 3D model I created of the sign and concepts from other ice cream cone neon images.
For those a little late to the history on this piece...this sign used to hang on Disney's California Adventure Catch-A-Flave ice cream shop. I had been looking to do an ice cream based neon linocut for my wife and had discovered previously that this particular one existed. We visited Disneyland in September of 2017 and I finally got a picture of the ice cream cone that I wanted to use as subject matter. Unfortunately for me, though the day was sunny, we were not at the sign during a good time of day. In my photo, the sun shines directly on the side of the sign and not on either of the two large surfaces.
It took me some working and studying of other similar styled signs to come up with my own version of the shadows. Most of the shadows were created by just placing my pencil drawing back on top of the lino and off setting it from the design and transferring the areas of the drawing that corresponded to the neon tubing. It works pretty well for the lower half, but the actual "ice cream on the cone" was a bit more problematic. I noticed on other images I found online of this sign that the neon up top created completely different looks depending on where and how the sun was hitting the tubes.
I wound up using a combination of my imagination, my transfer process, a 3D model I created of the sign and concepts from other ice cream cone neon images.
Ice Cream final color linoleum block on press and close up of neon/ice cream swirl.
I'm happy that this piece turned out how it did. I do see little areas that I wish I could fix, but this is normal with practically every piece of artwork I've ever made. As this piece was for my wife, I did ask her opinion...she was afraid to hurt my feelings since she's quite aware as to how long I've been working with this piece. To be honest though, it's been a long time since I've gotten offended or hurt by honest criticism. She gave me hers after I told her to basically just lay it all out there. It gave me ideas and I'll be revising the color list....and who knows....maybe in the future this piece will show back up on this blog as a new piece..... =)
Always strive for perfection if it's what you want.
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Always strive for perfection if it's what you want.
#art #printmaking #linocut #reductionlinocut #reductionprint #reliefprint #icecream #neon #disney #californiaadventure #skyblue #catchaflave #lightandshadow #castshadow
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