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| Color pass 7 |
Silly me.
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| Color pass 8 |
After staring at this a while I decided I really wanted to deepen the "shadows" between the background trees and leave the foreground grasses light. I ended up just running a 1" band of darker ochre through the area and printing again without any further carving. It's fairly subtle, but I think it added a lot.
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| Color pass 9. Are we done now? |
So THEN I thought I was at the last color. A nice browny thing. The entire piece definitely turned out mid-day-ish, but I liked it well enough. I cleaned everything up and headed for bed, satisfied with a 9-colors-in-two-days marathon.
But, as so often happens, by the time I was brushing my teeth I thought that maybe I could do one more thing to it. I liked the relationship of the foreground to the background, but couldn't it be just a bit more dramatic? Couldn't I give everything one more layer of depth?
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| Color 10. Oh, NOW it's done. |
So now it's finished.... really. (Although I do need a title.) Back to map icons and brook trout, bird habitats and workshop preps. And contemplating that 16x20 block that's sitting on the table. Somehow I think that will be a slightly longer than 2-day project.
Oh, yeah! That is a huge improvement. At each of the last two color passes before that final one, I thought: nice! But now it's great. Give your inner border collie a pat for me, okay?
ReplyDeleteBeautiful and inspiring!
ReplyDeleteYou know, Sherrie - I enjoy reading your commentary as much as I enjoy seeing your artwork. You are such a hoot!
ReplyDeleteAnother home run for Brush and Baron studios with this linocut - those babies just pop after pass #10 :).
I really do like how you think. Isn't it amazing how things come to us while we are doing routine chores.
ReplyDeleteIt is beautiful!
Sherrie,
ReplyDeleteFantastic. Your are something!
I love our Christmas card image from you. Years ago we went to see and Impressionist show (I know... yawn) but it was "Impressionists in Winter" at The Smithsonian. A wonderful show and bought the catalog which I love to actually thumb through in the winter.
Do you have any prints left of the winter card? Me=interested.
I love the depth created by the tones in the trees, the last pass has made it in my humble opinion. You are on a roll..... 16x20 block!!! At this rate you'll have that done in a week - no pressure ;o)
ReplyDeleteOn a cheeky note, can we have an update on the thumbnails project? I see you've done 15 this month so far. (If only I had your energy..sigh...where do you get an inner border collie from?)
ooohh and thank you for adding me to your blog roll, it's made my day... x
Oh Sherrie, you are so right with that last color! It doesn't pop, it zings!
ReplyDeleteanother gorgeous piece of work :)
ReplyDeleteWell! Thanks, everyone, for the votes of approval. Seriously, it's all of you who keep the border collie busy!
ReplyDeleteCheeky Lisa: thumbnail update soon. Sadly I must attend to other responsibilities today, but back to the blogosphere soon!
PS: Karen... welcome! And thanks for adding your voice to the conversation.
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