Reduction Lino - Third Layer

Before I can do anything exciting with the whole image I have to finish printing the the bricks and the leaves in the tree. It's good to know I'm getting them out of the way but it also feels like I'm hardly progressing at all!
Unfortunately my photos aren't great. My camera has scratches on the lens, so each image weird spots on it.. You get the idea though... Ignore spots.

Reduction Lino - Second Layer

Reduction Lino - First layer

It's taken a while to get these images up but it's finally happening! Here is my lino block ready for it's first layer of ink.

And here is the first layer printed....

Some 'experimental' prints. One with a wood grain printed under the first layer and another just playing around with some strange colours....

Dreaming

'... I do not hope to be great at all in anything, but perhaps I may reasonably hope to be happy in my work, and sometimes when I am idle and doing nothing pleasant visions go past me of the things that may be...'
- William Morris

Reduction lino

I am in the process of learning how to print a reduction lino. It's all very exciting and a little bit scary. I'm running out of time and still haven't actually printed anything! I'll try to post images of my prints as I progress.... So far I'm still cutting out ALL my negative space!!

Just for Fun

I was looking through some old art diaries and realised that, since starting my course at uni, I've almost completely stopped sketching for the fun of sketching. Everything revolves around ideas for projects, concept development and the ever dreaded essay writing.
So, last night, with the help of Frankie magazine, I sat down for 20 minutes and drew something. And it was fun and fulfilling and I went to bed happy.

The productivity of a procrastinator...

Artist books lino cut

Screen print.