Following an excercise from a book called Learning Linocut by Susan Yeates, I made these different linocuts of a cormorant in flight...
I photocopied a black and white photograph I had taken from Fen Hide at RSPB Strumpshaw Fen...
I then traced the outline and put a layer of graphite on the other side of the tracing paper...
The first linocut followed the line of the drawing...
I used a blend of two colours: yellow and burnt sienna.
Notice the print is a reverse of the drawing.
Next, I cut out the shape of the bird to give a negative image. Only the sky is printed, leaving the bird-shape...
I guess if I had printed light ink on dark paper, I might create a silhouette.
The last print is from a block where I cut out the sky instead, leaving the bird to make a positive shape. I included some minimal details in the bird...
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