Colour 11 and Finished

Newbridge and the track to Silverdale-Littondale.
Reduction Linocut. 170mm x 260mm.
Edition of 5.

Not quite what I intended when I started out with this print, but considering the difficulties I have had with it I'm very pleased with the result.

Colour 10, nearly there now

A dark green to give the trees and the darker vegetation on the hillside a lift.

My original interest in this view was triggered by the contrasting landuse being shown by the different colours of the vegetation. The fields in the valley bottom are used as pasture, and the grass grown, originally for a hay crop but nowadays cut for silage. On the hillside, the rougher pastures that are too steep to crop, gradually give way to darker coloured heather and bilberry moorland.

Blundering back on track

Continuing this masterclass in how not to go about making a reduction linocut. As the foreground green is now too dark, I overprinted a light green.



and then a darker blue onto the river and the distant hill.

after nine colours we are nearly finished. Two colours to go now I think.

Digging my way out of a hole

Following my last post I've been debating what to do about this print. Having completely messed up with the colour order during printing, I was tempted to abandon the print altogether. However, having slept on it I decided to continue and see if I can salvage something from it. So on with the next colour:

The foreground is now too dark, its going from bad to worse!

The less said the better

Don't know how it happened, but I completely forgot about this colour. It should have been printed as colour 2 or colour 3. I've had to print it a lot darker than originally intended so I am not sure how it will now affect the subsequent colours.

New Gallery

I dropped off some Linocuts at a new gallery for me. The Ryburn Gallery at Sowerby Bridge near Halifax. Further details can be found at : www.ryburngallery.com

First Greens

I've printed the first two greens and the landscape is begining to take shape.