Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Winding Up the Hand-colored Linocut

Green Heron and Eastern Pondhawk. Working State of Hand-colored Linocut by Ken Januski.

Green Heron and Eastern Pondhawk. Working State of Hand-colored Linocut by Ken Januski.

I'm winding up, or perhaps down, the hand-colored (with watercolor) linocut of a Green Heron and an Eastern Pondhawk. It's possible I'll make a few small changes, for instance adding color to the leaves in upper left, but I'm nearly done. I have firmly decided not to put any color I the large section of water.

I only noticed when I put these online that the cropped photo on the bottom is completely wrong in terms of paper color. The background color of the water is cream, not white. The full print at top shows the true colors.

I'm not really sure what prompted me to go in this direction. But the more I print the more I realize that there are many directions that one can go. I'll most likely go back to my more abstract style but this is a refreshing break in what is really much more like an illustration than my normal work.

Most likely this will be an edition of 10, or perhaps 11.

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