Jacques Moiroud is a regular contributor to the Linocut Friends Facebook group. I’ve seen several works over the recent months and admired them for their textural variety. He posted another one today and I decided to study his work a little more. What intrigued me was how he managed to create tonal effects through the […]
I’m trying to get to grips with tutor feedback from the printmaking course as well as recent assessment feedback on the watercolour course. I understood that my blogs are seen as too descriptive. My printmaking tutor pointed out that I should be including more information on my personal journey as an artist. I guess I […]
I came across this young Spanish artist on the Linocut friends facebook group, where he posted images of a recent linocut he made. The linocut explores a graphical subject with a 4-colour C-M-Y-K transparent overprinting technique. I was fascinated by the colour effects and thought I might build on this in the next project. The […]
Sasha Barker: View of Mt. Hood (Multiple colour linocut) – cutting lines and shapes There are coloured areas where white lines appear, and there are white areas with coloured linear elements. This interplay creates a lot of visual interest. I repeatedly found this pattern in linocuts, only recently in two other postings to […]
The central idea for this project was to make a portrait of Elvis Presley. I was inspired by Andy Warhol’s celebrity prints, in particular the portraits of Mick Jagger which I included in the research point (see http://ocaprintmaking1.blueconcretemoon.com/?p=1707) Preparatory work I started from a photo and made some sketches to study the image as a […]
Andy Warhol (1975): Mick Jagger The first thing that came to mind was an image I had seen recently when I did some research on Andy Warhol’s celebrity portraits. Warhol had made a series of prints of Mick Jagger. I looked them up and found out they’re screenprints. But I think the way Warhol treated […]