Artist Copy

First I found an artist which I would like to copy, after looking on Pinterest for different ideas I found some piece of work which had been completed with lino. This process is done where by the cut out chunks of lino, roll ink over them and then print them onto another piece of paper.

Secondly I found a lino pattern someone had already created and then selected a section of this image decided upon how big the sheet of lino I would copy it on. Next I printed out the section of lino art already created and started to draw onto my piece of lino a copy of the pattern, this was done the closest I could get it.

Next I started to cut out the white sections of lino. This in total took about ten hours over two nights to complete it.

After completely cutting out the chunks of lino I needed to, I took a roller and rolled ink onto the piece of lino so that the raised parts would get covered in Ink. After doing this the inked piece of lino was then pressed down onto a piece of A4 white paper and rolled multiple times with another larger roller so that the ink would transfer from the lino to the piece of paper. Although the print was then backwards this wouldn't matter because it would be left to dry to then put into photoshop.

Once it was scanned in and put in photoshop it was thresholded and then the colour was changed to make it more attractive and appealing. Because I'd purposely made some copies lighter than others it gave me the chance to overlay one copy onto the other, therefore I could use two colours.

This was the final product