That's my project. It took a long time before I even found a motif. I'm not really happy with that and I know I can do it better.
Thanks for the great course. I enjoyed it and learned so much. Now I have to practice, practice and oh yes, practice.
Thanks for sharing your final project here, and thanks for the kind words about the class!
I really like your line quality and overall coverage of ink, but I have some suggestions that I hope will help you with this piece.
Overall the composition feels a bit separated, and unresolved because in the corner you have the sun with it's rays, and then the ground plane. One way to unify this would be to make the sun's rays a bit longer so that they fill the space between the ground and sun. Another way to approach this would be to carve a secondary linocut and register the sun's rays as a second color to achieve this.
One other suggestion that would help is to print on Mulberry paper. Mulberry paper is thin, and is typically used by Japanese Ukiyo-e printmakers. When you are hand-printing, it allows for you to better see how much coverage of ink you are getting by applying pressure with a barren, and the paper is surprisingly strong and resilient considering how thin it is.
Let me know if you need for me to post your image with a "draw over" that has my notes on it for assisting you in making revisions to the overall composition.
Thanks and I am excited to see what you create next!
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Thanks for sharing your final project here, and thanks for the kind words about the class!
I really like your line quality and overall coverage of ink, but I have some suggestions that I hope will help you with this piece.
Overall the composition feels a bit separated, and unresolved because in the corner you have the sun with it's rays, and then the ground plane. One way to unify this would be to make the sun's rays a bit longer so that they fill the space between the ground and sun. Another way to approach this would be to carve a secondary linocut and register the sun's rays as a second color to achieve this.
One other suggestion that would help is to print on Mulberry paper. Mulberry paper is thin, and is typically used by Japanese Ukiyo-e printmakers. When you are hand-printing, it allows for you to better see how much coverage of ink you are getting by applying pressure with a barren, and the paper is surprisingly strong and resilient considering how thin it is.
Let me know if you need for me to post your image with a "draw over" that has my notes on it for assisting you in making revisions to the overall composition.
Thanks and I am excited to see what you create next!
Best-
Don
@dkilpatrick thank you so much for your suggestions.
I'll implement them into my next work.
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