I had been enjoying lino in a previous module and wanted to try something more intricate with it, given the drawings with lots of lines I had been doing I thought that it would be appropriate for this project.
I wasn't sure about the format of my images as two of them were portrait and one landscape in my roughs however using lino helped make the decision of using a square format so that they are all the same and work as a set rather than one looking out of place.
I had a hard time getting the prints to come out well as they were quite big (30cm x 30cm). I was unsure whether it was that they didn't have enough ink on them or if it was a pressure problem. It might have been more effective if I had used the hydraulic press down at vernon street, I will keep that in mind next time I do large scale prints. I managed to get a couple of prints good enough to use, as I was always going to add colour in another way.
Lino is a bit of a tricky customer as I have a hard time remembering A- that it's going to print backwards to how you cut it and B- what needs to be cut out and what doesn't! I initially thought that I would cut out the lines and reverse it in photoshop so they are black but I liked how they turned out with white lines (also on the mouth I had cut out the teeth so if I reversed it they would be black). I still tested it out on one image but I think the black with white lines made it look more dramatic, and I'm interested in playing around with textures and colours on these images.
I've done some tests using fiery brusho experiment I did while thinking about the colours and feel I wanted for the image, it has given some interesting textures and a bit of an idea of what a final image could look like.
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