The giant linocut project is already at the half way stage! After another 6 hours of printing today at Hot Bed Press, the prints are drying, having been transformed by the third colour.
Tomorrow I will hand print the spot colours to define the hot air balloons and poppies!
Below you can see the development of the print so far, in images - as the design slowly emerges.
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Plain A1 lino in my home studio |
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Transferrin the design and starting to cut the gutter |
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Lots of cutting - lino pieces everywhere |
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Printing colour 1 at Hot Bed Press |
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Prints drying at Hot Bed Press |
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Printing colour 2 gradation |
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Lots of rollers and lots of space to print the colour 2 gradation |
To see a video of the second colour stage, please check out this link to
my website, as I have not been able to add the video here.
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The print at colour 2 - ready to go through the press again |
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Printing colour 3 at Hot Bed Press |
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The lino plate, rollers and print - today's workstation! |
To see more of my work, please check out my website:
www.carolynmurphy.co.uk where you will also find an online
Shop with currently available work. Thanks!
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