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| Laughing gull linocut: Step 8 |
Well, I couldn't take much of that bad-lipstick look, so I did a little spot inking and put a layer of transparent black on the birds' heads. Easy enough to do because all of the material in the area around the heads has now been removed from the block.
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| Spot-inking the birds' heads. |
It's not the final black, but it's enough to keep me from being distracted by the ungraceful red shapes.
Oh look. Another gray. This one with some blue to it.
You might have noticed that my application of ink seems ragged and uneven. That's partially intentional and partially not. I'm experiencing some technical difficulties in my new space, I think mostly having to do with temperature regulation and drying times. But I also find a certain charm in allowing the texture of the paper to take precedence, so I'm doing a little experimenting. I hope it doesn't come back to bite me. Smirk, perhaps. But not bite.
the red everywhere on their heads did make them look like they had just killed something or someone :p
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