Hi-Land Dodge - 9x12 - 3 Color Reduction Linocut - Complete

After posting this morning hoping that I'd be able to finish this sometime today I decided to immediately follow it up with getting out the ink and applying to my glass desktop.  No turning back then.  

Took a little over an hour to print all 12.  As the surface of the block is carved away it becomes more difficult to stop the ink from accidentally marking areas where you don't want it.  I had been using paper towels to clean off the marks, but they tend to fray after a very short time so I dug out an old T-shirt instead and it worked very nicely.

Very excited to have finally managed to complete this piece even though and now it's time to get the new, large press ready to print the "Diner" piece that has been languishing in the void of time to work on anything.

Here is the color proof that I pulled to see what the last color would look like printed before moving onto prints that actually mattered.

This is the final piece (as also seen cropped in the first picture above).  There are some areas where I wish I had left some areas to be printed darker, but in the end, it doesn't really matter all that much and I'm very happy with how it turned out.

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So close and hopefully today!

Here is the final carving for the Dodge Hi-Land truck.  I'm still looking it over (for the 3rd time looking for areas that I may have missed), but this really seems to be it.  I was having issues figuring out that tire on the left of the block.  During the tracing and transfer stage I lost the definition to the bottom of it.  It was no where to be found on the drawings and wound up having to use photoshop and myself to try and make it work.

I think it looks pretty good now.  Next step is getting it printed out.  I have some errands I need to run today so hopefully I'll be able to print a little later today.  I'm really, really hoping that I'll have a final update later tonight or maybe even tomorrow.

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Hi-Land Dodge carving update - Almost there

 

Been working at carving away this block this week.  Took it to work for a couple days and though I don't normally get too far I'm definitely making some progress.  I'm doing a lot of comparisons to the reference image as a lot of what I was going to leave for black was actually supposed to be grey.  Will hopefully be ready for Saturday at some point so I can finally get this piece done (if not Saturday, then I'll force myself to do a Tuesday night printing).

Here's a small detail shot of the front of the truck.

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