I recently started working on a new small 3x3 print. I printed the 2nd color the other day and would really like to get the 3rd printed this coming Thursday.
The image is a crop of a photo that I took during a trip to Zion National Park two years ago. I'm hoping that this will help me develop my skills in areas where I feel I'm not so strong. I see tons of linocut images from other artists who do landscapes and I'm completely in awe. I really want to learn this process and though I've tried previously with landscapes....they have pretty much all failed.
My previous attempt at a landscape from Utah has really hit a snag after a bad selection of color on my part as well as not really understanding how to tackle the issue of grasses. In my mind, creating the illusion of grass should be very simple, but each attempt that I've tried has ultimately resulted in failure. I plan on creating a small 3x3 with grass so that I can try to teach myself the process in a more timely manner than larger prints afford me. Keep in mind that these prints generally take me between 1-3 months until they are complete, so the learning (and sometimes the failures that come with it) take place over a long period of time. By the time I realize that what I was trying isn't working out, I've probably already invested 3-4 weeks into the print. That includes development of the image, the transfer to the lino block, the tracing in Sharpie Marker, carving of the block and printing.
I'm constantly trying to learn how to better myself and creating multiple projects at a time that range from being very comfortable to very difficult for me. The comfortable ones will still offer challenges, but ones that can still be overcome and ultimately end with a nice final product (it always feel good to have a final print in your hands). The difficult ones obviously are the flip side....they generally cause me great stress and I (probably) 9 times out of 10 come away with nothing, but the actual experience itself and the knowledge that is gained from at least trying.
#art #printmaking #linocut #lino #linoprint #reductionlinocut #Utah #landscape #printingprocess #zion #nationalpark
No comments:
Post a Comment