“Woodland Pond” was inspired by a walk near our Vermont country house, where golden light filtered through trees and reflected in a small pond. Here’s the photo (with some blobs of color where I started painting on it in Photoshop).
- Since there will be no white, or naked paper, in this image, my first print is yellow ink on an uncarved piece of linoleum.
- Next, I do a carving of the light orange shapes on a new piece of linoleum.
- Now I grab that first uncarved linoleum, carve away the parts that should show yellow and light orange, and print tan.
- I take the previous carving and cut away all the shapes that should remain tan. Now an experiment: I want green leaves and red leaves in this picture. Can I cut out a step and print both at once? I mix both colors, and blend them on the ink roller. It works! Reddish trees above, brown leaves in the center, olive leaves below.
5. With a new piece of linoleum, I draw the shapes that should print black, and carve away the negative space.
- The carving and the finished product
