Once again it seems my first two colors were close enough in value to each other that they're going to end up indistinguishable in the final product. (sigh) I find this really difficult to judge in the early stages... In the past I've made the mistake of going too dark too soon and REALLY making a mess of things. The light gray over the light blue looked different enough in the first two passes, but now? Harumph. Not so much. But I shan't panic. Everything else still seems to be on track.
The carving for color #5 promises to be time consuming: more leaves and tangled blades of grass. Should keep me off the streets for a bit, anyway. This weekend I have to turn my attention to a small commission, but I'm hoping for bits and pieces of time to keep this moving ahead. Or into the ditch. Which is what this is. A ditch. A linocut of a ditch. Really. Maybe into the ditch is a good thing.
I can see some beautiful depth developing. Am always in awe of how you create such wonderful detail and keep your head around it all.
ReplyDeleteIt's all done with mirrors! ;-)
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This is looking pretty darn good so far, similar colours or not. I'm sure it'll turn out to be exellent as always!
ReplyDeleteBut I can definitely relate to the "going too dark too soon". As a matter of fact....
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