Lotus - 2x4" - 5 Color Reduction Linocut
I've been working on a couple pieces recently and trying my hand once again at a vehicle. This Lotus and the Spyder cars will be my first vehicles since the Dodge truck that I made a couple years back.
These particular cars are not based off of actual vehicles that I have seen in person, but rather something from my childhood that happened to be made from die-cast metal....that's right....these two pieces are based off of Hot Wheels cars that I went out and purchased just for this reason. Hot Wheels generally creates a bunch of non-real styles of vehicles so I just focused looking for cars that looked as real as possible.
These are some of the many pictures I took of each car. I tried a bunch of angles and lighting to get exactly the look I wanted.
Spyder - 12x16" - 7 Color Reduction Linocut
This is the other one that I'm currently working on. I started this one several months back, but due to the complexity and the time that was being taken up by the Racer and Ice Cream linocuts this one got set aside....and then...I forgot about it.
The darkest grey on this image was printed this past week. The registration is ever so slightly off...and I mean slightly. It's possible the paper stretched a little due to the humidity because the area in question is only along the edge. I'm currently in the process of carving this block and making sure that I know exactly what areas of the windshield and interiors areas (seats, etc) are going to be removed before printing the next color.
Anyhow, I just wanted to give everyone a heads up as to what's been happening with my artwork.
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