The mantra in the studio is "trust the process." Reduction woodcut is much different than other forms of block printing. I work from a cartoon, which is a road map for the print. I transfer the image to the block using carbon paper, though the block absorbs pigment, making the tracings almost invisible. The biggest challenge is color. Colors react to colors around them, but because I won't know how the colors will act until the print is done, I need to trust the palette I selected at the outset.
Here you can see how the colors seem different. Another interesting thing is that the top color, a very light pink/beige, looked completely different when printed alone, more of a putty gray. But with the red under it, it casts a bit Pinker, which is why I printed in this order. I printed the brown over the green for the same reason -- printing red on green would have made the red too dark.
Here you can see how the colors seem different. Another interesting thing is that the top color, a very light pink/beige, looked completely different when printed alone, more of a putty gray. But with the red under it, it casts a bit Pinker, which is why I printed in this order. I printed the brown over the green for the same reason -- printing red on green would have made the red too dark.
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