Next step in Lino Printing is to play with colours.
A Dorset artist Liz Sommerville, I think colours her in using watercolour or gouache. I love her work. The work is so detailed and beautiful, each must have taken such a long time.
Of course I am so far off from getting to where Liz’s is, I don’t think I’ll ever reach that point. Haha.
You can also create two lino plates each carved differently to apply 2 colours.
I tried a different tactic, blocks of colours at the back of the black outline. I thought it looks really fun.
Perfect for me is rugged and something that looks real, not for the print to look like it came out of a factory. Of course this might not be everyone’s cup of tea, Mary Berry would call this style ” A little informal”. 🙂
Here I am trying different blue. The first two the yellow is really smudged with black because the roller was not washed properly.
TIP: make sure you wash rolers properly to get crisper colours!
What do you think? Have tried this before?
-Jane-
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