On a day out exploring I went to see Coverack. It's coastal village with a fishing harbour on the east side of the Lizard peninsula. It's also got some amazing rocks on the beach and is very interesting geologically. But of course I was looking for cutting inspiration and really wanted to find a photo of the boats that I could use. I love this one because there is so much going on in the water and the colours of the boats at the top add a lovely detail
Here's my finished print
and here's how I did it.
The drawing on the lino. It's not too detailed, it's the plan
because I scribble on what I'm going to cut out as I go along
this is the 2nd colour the first was a pale yellow
the first blue and the 3rd colour of the cloud reflections
5th colour for the buoys
6th colour is another blue and 7th is the base of the shadow reflections
8th a green on the water
scribles on lino to cut next blue in the water
9th the 3rd blue
10th on the buoys
how the lino is now looking with all the reduction cutting.
11th is the 3rd colour on the buoys and in their water reflections
12th is the blue boats
13th the red boat
I love how the blue ink of the boats has stained the lino
14th dark blue on boats
just a close up of how the boats are coming along
15th darker green on the water
16th is a darker red on the red boat and 17th a brown on a blue boat
18th is a dark grey over the water
19th to 20th I rolled a black to a dark green across the whole water reflections
and lastly 21 is the last blue on the water and I also hand painted some extra bright fluorescents onto the buoys. Sorry if it upsets the purists I quite like a bit of mixed media.
in St Ives everything gets framed in white for Art Space Gallery so here's a mock up of it in a white frame.
Reduction linocut/mixed media
Edition size 30
21 colours
Printed image size 63 x 43cm
Somerset paper 300gms
available to order now but they're drying and won't be sent out until the end of June