Updates on current pieces - Ice Cream and Green Street

Green Street - 8x10" Linocut

I've not surrendered to this piece yet.  =D

I'm still pushing ahead and recently printed the large green grass area at the bottom (obviously).  This color is a middle tone for the grass and will show up here and there.  I will print a darker green over top to indicate shadows on both the bushes and the grass itself.  I'm in the process of trying to figure out/carving out the areas for this particular color.  I'm feeling probably another 5-6 colors until I complete this piece.

 

Ice Cream - 20x16" Linocut

I've advanced one color on the Ice Cream piece as well.  If you compare the last update of this piece with this one you may think that I'm showing the same picture, but I assure you I'm not.  You can see some really light detail of the yellow neon tubing which makes up the edges of the cone and a little on the bottom where it crosses horizontally.

I've also been working on the block and trying to get it carved as soon as possible as I'm enjoying this piece a good bit so far.  If my calculations are correct, I'm looking at probably another 7 colors on this piece until it is finished as well.

I've also been busy working on a new piece entitled "Racer" which will be my longest piece ever created at 34".  The subject matter is of an old roller coaster located at Kennywood Park near Pittsburgh, PA.  I'm hoping to have this piece done by early, early spring, but the size of it may also call for the purchase of a larger brayer to ink the block up.  I'm not exactly sure how this will work out...a new brayer is rather expensive and the amount of time it would take to ink the block without one would be considerable.  

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