I dunno if it's just me, but it seems like we've had more than the usual number of gray days in the last month or two. As a child of the 300-days-of-sunshine-per-year interior West, these coastal winter days are hard for me. I don't mind some weather and atmosphere, but I really would prefer a different balance than the one we're currently in.
Soooooooooooo.... Let's print some ridiculous green for Step 5 of the current reduction linocut in progress.
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| Step 5 with mask |
I jest (slightly), but it did take a few tries to hit the correct green for this stage. Initial attempts were waayyyyy too bright. Even after I settled on a color and printed the entire run, I wasn't sure it was quite right.
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| Step 5 printed |
Yep. The next day I decided it was too much, too soon. Right color, wrong stage of the process. Nothing to do but overprint a semi-transparent white-to-gray blend and tone it all down.
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| Step 6 rollup |
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| Step 6 printed |
Yes, that's better... and I got the intermediate green in the bargain. It's always a bit of a head-scratcher when I have to think inside out about values. Before I overprinted I did, of course, carve away the areas where I wanted this green to remain, but I had to remind myself these were not the lightest bits of green.
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| Step 5 vs Step 6 |
Here's a comparison shot... I definitely think it's better this way, and worth the mental gymnastics. Next step? Another green, I think. Maybe. Probably.
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