Ever done a Reduction Print? I guess it's mainly for LTC'ers, but it's possible for others as well.
Basically, it's like a layered stamp, except you carve for one color at a time. For example, on this image, you'd carve out the white first and stamp in red as many times as you want plus more because you will lose several of the prints on the way through the different layers. Then, you'd carve out where the red in the finished image goes and stamp the remaining in black right over the red.If I had a better image with more colors, it would work for a better example. Basically, carve out the white first and then ink it up in the lightest color and move through the layers until you are to the darkest color. When you're all done with the final color, you can only print after that with that part of the stamp.Just a little interesting form of carving I learned at a Lino Block carving class a week or so ago.
~BOB~
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Interestingly enough, I have that selfsame image in my little stash of "things to be carved at a future date". Maybe I'll give the reduction print technique a whirl!
How is the Lino. carving class for you? Is it easier or harder, do you think, because of your pz kut carving background?
Poodle Dudes
It was much harder to carve into because I have been carving into PZ Kut white which is SOOOOOO easy to carve into for quite some time.
~BOB~
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