Floral linocut – moving along

After my last trials on white paper I moved to printing on coloured bases.

My backgrounds were made by rolling various acrylic paints onto damp plastic sheeting and smoothing paper over the surface, thereby transferring some of the paint. Unfortunately the photos don’t pick up the gold shimmer that sits within these monoprints and they look a little flat. However, in real life they do have a glow.

As I thought, the yellow mix disappears into the background. Shame but expected.

I’ve had orange in mind right from the first day and the design sits well and is very distinguishable, but now I’ve seen the colours together outside my imagination I’m not so keen on the outcome.

OK, now it’s coming together.

A slightly different background, more blue/green than yellow/green and I’m loving what I’m seeing. I’m using these 2 green sets for my book project.

2 responses to “Floral linocut – moving along”

nolaarcher

January 7, 2020 at 3:45 pm

Love the last ones! I like the orange too but it lacks the drama of the high contrast ones. I wonder what it would look like with a dark red overprint?

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1. Claire B
  
  January 7, 2020 at 4:27 pm
  
  The first copy of the book using these prints is made but not quite as sturdy as I’d hoped, so the second version will be done today/tomorrow and you can see the results. I’ve gone with a mix of charcoal image on green background (shown above) and charcoal image on pristine white paper. The imagery is fantastic, just need to refine the construction slightly.
  A dark red overprint would likely work but I thought red and green would fight for dominance. I have two backgrounds still unprinted so I might experiment further but first I have to get the book together.
  
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