Bass Harbor Lighthouse - miniprint

Bass Harbor Lighthouse

Beginning to start a couple new 3x3" mini prints in hopes that come November some of the art shows that I submit to each year will be able to go on.

I have a couple different ideas floating around for this piece.  When we visited Bass Harbor Lighthouse this past September we were there for sunset, but when we first arrived it was lit with "standard" sunlight.  As the sun went down though the colors being reflected off of the building altered as did the color of the sky.  I actually have created two separate lino blocks for this particular piece.  I plan on doing one for daylight and one for sunset.

Initially I wasn't too sure about which I wanted to do so I scanned the lino block into my computer using a scanner and printed out 6 black and white images of just the drawn image.  I then used my photos and a little bit of artistic license to play with different looks.  These little thumbnails are actual size of the block, but allow me the opportunity to see kinda what works and what won't.

Hopefully within a week or so I'll be able to start posting the printed progressions of both versions.

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Plutos and a Spyder update!

Pluto's - update

Shortly after my last post I printed the green on the larger Pluto's piece.  In yet another stage of learning, I discovered that I should print green before violet/purple.  The violet wasn't all that dark so I figured (for some reason) that I could successfully print over it in green...I was incorrect.

If you look just to the left of the "Pluto's" neon text you can a variation in the green.  That variation is where the violet was printed.  I now have to double print the green and that should be complete by the end of the day today.  I was going to print it last week (this has been printed for 2 weeks now), but had some other chores and things around the house pop up so I had to push it off until today.

Spyder

WOAH!!!  Here's a piece that I haven't updated in a while.  This poor guy has been on the "on and off" list for quite a while  It kinda got buried when I started the Pluto's piece.  Red was the last color I printed which was only a couple weeks back.  I have somewhere around 4 colors left to go....a black, and I think 3 darker reds for the shadows of the car.  Hopefully I can find some time to get this car back on the road.

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