Colour 3 is a pale tawny colour for the moorland on the distant hillside on the far side of the Colne Valley. Some areas of this colour will be left as highlights in the foreground grasses.
and then a darker tone of the earlier tawny colour.
Six colours down, probably another six to go. I start every print with the intention of trying to limit the number of colours used. I don't know how or where the figure came from but I seem to have got an ideal of 6 colours in my mind. Try as I might I can't get anywhere near this. Infact, with the last few prints I seem to be going the other way and using more colours not less! Does this matter though ? Is the number of colours used important ?
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From a viewer's point of view it confirms a mastery of sorts - incredulously I ask 'how did he do that'? Sometimes I'm tempted to carve something which I know will push skills and be an exercise in technique or use of material.
Hi Jennifer
I hadn't thought of it like that. You are looking at the prints and thinking 'how is he doing that.' I'm looking at them and thinking 'he's making that look like hard work!'
But you are right it is a challenge to make a print with so many colours and to keep the registration spot on for each colour.
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