I was just itching to do some lino printing so I decided to go for it here. I always intended to edit the print digitally so was going to print it in black but I decided life is more fun when you do lino prints in colour, so I tested out doing gradients! It was a lot of fun I really enjoyed the process, and the outcome - I definitely want to do more colourful prints in the future.
I think the prints look better in real life as you can see the colours better, but I love the combination of the luminous yellow and the blue/purple because it's like the night sky and the brightness of the star.
The image definitely needed some cleaning up so I had a play in photoshop, mainly experimenting with different settings and opacities, adding the ink textures and such. I started to dislike a lot of what I was doing here and preferred just the straight up prints. I think I found that I was overdoing the editing process, adding colours and textures and extra bits that didn't need to be there. Taking a step back and simplifying the modifications back down was what worked for this image.
Instead of adding anything, I just layered the two colours I had printed together and positioned them so the purple made up the lines and the yellow filled in the gaps, which definitely was less overpowering than everything else I was messing around with. I also made some touch ups on the shape of the face and smoothing out some mis-cut lines. More subtle changes than full on editing it.
At some point I thought the jewel in her hand was getting lost amongst the lines so I brought it out with a pop of a weird, turquoise. I tried to make it look glowing and magical to relate to the magic side of the story.
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