Day 66 - printmaking

I did not follow the guidance in the book today. Such a rebel. But, I did go to part two of my print-making workshop tonight! This whole print-making thing is awesome. I had no idea how simple it could be.

I had already made my lino-cut last week. I tried printing tonight, and realized that I wanted to cut it out a bit more, to get some more definition to the image. I will make some more prints next week, from the finished lino-cut. Here is what happened tonight:

cutting.

thistles.

prints.

The green print is from my original linocut. Then I cut it out a bit more (the taller thistle on the right), and did the black print. I could see that it gave the thistle more definition, so I then cut out the other thistle, and will make prints from it next week.

Photos were taken by my roommate, Lizzy. The top one was altered with Instagram.