r/Linocuts • u/thekroganqueen • 1d ago
Reductions/Multi-Blocks Colourful mouse stacks
Practicing reduction (and being less messy) with these mice based on an old book illustration. I screwed up the bottom mouse’s eye a bit, but I did manage to be less messy!
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u/countessvonpancake 1d ago
So cute! I'm still trying to wrap my brain around how to draw specifically for lino, and looking at this as an example of something like that. Can I ask you what your drawing process was for this. I understand it was based on a book illustration but I imagine you "converted" it somehow. I typically just draw something like a normal line drawing and then either carve out the lines or everything except the lines, and this feels like something else.
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u/thekroganqueen 1d ago
It can be so hard to figure out-especially with reduction. Anything more than two layers fries my brain.
With this I could have done a straight transfer of the original image (which would have been from an engraved printing block I guess?) and literally just had the entire original image as my second, darker layer on top of a lighter first layer that was the outline of the total printed area. (If that makes any sense?) But as it happened I redrew my top layer anyway.
Idk if this will make sense or help, but sometimes what I sort of do is have a line art drawing that includes all the details inside the design and the outline of the printed area. I print the full printed area in a lighter colour, then carve away the internal line art so that is shown as the first lighter colour when I print the second darker colour. Even as I type that it doesn’t make sense to me- I’m sorry. 🤦♀️2
u/countessvonpancake 1d ago
It is a great workout for the brain! lol. But yeah I think I get what you're saying! First layer would have been (in the first image) the light pink-purple, which would have been the outer lines of the drawing, basically filled with that colour? And then you would have carved away the inner details and printed the darker blue?
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u/cation587 5h ago
This reminds me so much of the children's book Mouse Paint! I love it!
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u/thekroganqueen 4h ago
Oh my gosh I just looked it up and it’s so cute! I’m furious that I didn’t have it as a kid
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