Cafe - 2016
Oh dear....it's been quite a while since my last update. I will say though that things got very busy over the holiday season and finishing up the Pluto's Toy piece (see last post) really took a lot out of me creatively.
I have been slowly at work though on a couple projects. I will try to highlight the stages of production for some of those each week.
My first post I suppose will start with this piece that I attempted back in 2016. It is part of the sign for the Harley Davidson Las Vegas Cafe which is now closed. I liked the Cafe part of this sign very much and I was still very "young" when it came to making prints at home rather than in a studio environment. I was also painfully learning about the issues of different inks. Three colors in and this 9x12" piece became my first major disaster (if I remember correctly).
Oh dear....it's been quite a while since my last update. I will say though that things got very busy over the holiday season and finishing up the Pluto's Toy piece (see last post) really took a lot out of me creatively.
I have been slowly at work though on a couple projects. I will try to highlight the stages of production for some of those each week.
My first post I suppose will start with this piece that I attempted back in 2016. It is part of the sign for the Harley Davidson Las Vegas Cafe which is now closed. I liked the Cafe part of this sign very much and I was still very "young" when it came to making prints at home rather than in a studio environment. I was also painfully learning about the issues of different inks. Three colors in and this 9x12" piece became my first major disaster (if I remember correctly).
So...fast forward 4 years and my desire to complete this piece properly came back to me. I always had one of the failures hanging on the wall as a reminder of what could've been.
Cafe - 2020/2021
This lino block was started and carved back in late 2020. The original was 9x12" and I decided to make my life easier with the smaller details by turning this one into a 12x16" piece. Though I would love to work on smaller pieces, I find that pieces larger than 10x10" are more fun for me.
Part of my issue with the first attempt was that I printed grey first. I learned very quickly that yellows or variations there of should always be printed first. This image is a light yellow highlight on some of the neon tubing and then the second color a warm yellow which is the actual coloring of the tubing for this print.
Next step is a light grey for other areas of neon tubing. This grey actually printed darker than I wanted, but I discovered a way of fixing that issue on another print that I was working on so my next color will actually become the highlighted area of the tubing.
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