Thursday, April 7, 2011

by the way, heard you say you were skippin town...

time for some more linocut fun with my buddies Civil War Rust who are doin' a mini tour to Arizona and back. i decided to do a small run poster for them to sell for gas and beer. another linocut, but this time made as a reduction print or 'suicide print'. with a reduction print you use one block for all of your colors as opposed to using a block for every color. much harder, much messier, much much more rewarding, and a tiny bit faster.

here's the first pull....
after some drying and finger crossing, i pulled the second layer on top of these, and...

isnt that neat?! i thought so too.