Relief Printing

Relief printing was a new experience for me and I was excited to begin. Rather than just cutting one lino and sticking to that design, I moved onto a further 2 linos. This allowed me to experiment further and gain a variety of development processes. I found it easy to get my head around the fact the concluded print would be the opposite way round to the lino cut, this meant that any text I was to add would be backwards. Although this wasn't challenging, I found it extremely challenging trying to understand how to add various tones to the print. After buying my paper that would be used for the final print, I started to plan what colours will be used first. I realised that this was easier said than done as I began to realise more needed to be added after I had cut the design away. This, for me, was distressing however I worked around it and the outcome wasn't that bad considering. The fact that I can't digitally manipulate the print as that would ruin the whole idea of old fashioned broadsides, I had to face the fact that that's as good as it's going to get. On the bright side however I found that the smudgy finger prints and the lack of some detail and high colour tones that would of defined and concluded the design, all relates to the simplistic designs of the first ever broadsides. Overall I admit that my final was not the most professional finish in the world, however I am confident that practice makes perfect.