July 2022, a beautiful evening and a swim with my sister down at Kynance Cove. Lots of photos taken and here's the one I chose to work with
A simple drawing on the lino and first cut
First two colours printed
2nd cut and lino showing the white lines where I'm planning to cut.
3rd colour a second green
4th colour a blue over the whole sea and a blend in the sky
5th colour a third green
6th colour a second blue
7th colour a turquoise on the lino
and printed
8th colour a forth green
9th colour a fifth darker green to finish the sea
10th colour a blue grey for the background rocks
11th colour a darker nearly black to finish the rocks.
This is the finished print
Here's a detail of the rocks, as well as cuts I played with dabbing them with scrunched paper and scraping them with a palette knife, and got some interesting effects
Before I started to cut big bits out of the sea I thought I'd print a black version to see how it looked as a one colour print
It has a completely different feel and works very well, so I printed 4 While I was experimenting I tried a few chine colle versions. Sticking white paper down the centre of blue card and printing the black on top. I like playing to see what I learn in the process. They're quite strong I like their simplicity
an idea of how the finished print could look on a wall. I've had one framed very similarly to this and will be taking it to Printfest this weekend 29th - 30th April
11 colour reduction lino
edition size 11 plus one AP
image size 63 x 46cm
paper size 57 x 76cm
Somerset 300gsm