As I mentioned in my last post, it's time to move away from the pleasant and harmonious color scheme we've had so far and put in the contrasting orangey parts of the male ducks.
Since only small areas of the finished image will need these orangey shapes, I can use a combination of spot inking and masks to move the process along. I used the same piece of acetate as before, placed it over my carved block, and traced my new shapes in blue instead of pink.
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| Another mask pattern |
Again, I used this pattern to create newprint masks... like this:
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| Step 6 mask, ready to print |
It took a couple of tries to get the first of my two orangey colors right. This paler color will be the highlighted areas.
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| Step 6 ink rollup |
Before you see this next photo I have to apologize for the continued poor quality of my in-progress images. Now that the sun has made a seasonal shift it's difficult for me to find a spot in the studio with natural light for photography, so these have all been very dull and and strange, with glare from artificial lights... But hopefully you get the idea...
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| Reduction linocut in progress, Step 6 printed, embiggenable with a click |
Awkward little shapes, but sufficient for now. I did just a tiny bit of carving and then used spot inking...
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| Step 7 rollup |
and the same newsprint mask....
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| Step 7 on the press with mask in place. See what I mean about dodgy light? |
And heeeeerreee's Step 7 printed. The orange looks particularly harsh in this photo, but it's not nearly this bright. And a lot of it will be obscured by future color passes, anyway.
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| Reduction linocut, Step 7 printed, slightly embiggenable with a click |
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