I used a sketch I did to carve a lino print using Japanese lino which I’ve never used before I really enjoyed it because I hadn’t been in a print room for a while and I felt so good to be back.

I used this drawing because i thought it had interesting textures and a good balance of light and darker values. It also had shapes I could enhance for the lino.

I used transfer paper to translate my design onto the lino. However, I made a mistake and didn’t do it backwards it wouldn’t have been an issue if I hadn’t had words on the image. But I moved past this because this image was through a window so it gives the viewer a feeling of looking through the window a lens.

I was really excited to use the printing presses because, as I love history, these printing pressed were really old from about 1800s and were royal printing presses. Also I love that LCC used to be a printing institution.

These are the prints in all their backwards glory. It was suggested by the technician that I could carve out the words on the print and collage them in afterwards and I thought that it would be a good way to incorporate mixed media into my work and it was a good idea that I thought I may still do but I like the analogy of looking out of the window.

Finished prints completed and flipped post production on my phone.