Honing in on Project brief

Lino Print

I have been experimenting with lino printing since November last year. I have cut my hands once or twice doing it, it takes a certain type of skill which is interesting and rewarding and I think this lino is one of my best so far. It has been taken from the photograph I took over Christmas using a good quality SLR with a micro lens. This image which has a lot of historical references I have chosen as it gives a spiritual blessing to those who visualize it,similar to the cherubs have been painted over the centuries and angels have a lot of symbolic meaning. This sort of imagine has a lot of longevity and meaning. 

I would like to print this in the negative of what I have printed it and compare the two together.Also changing the scale would also be interesting, I have only been working on A5. Another idea would be to reflect image so they looked in different directions. Creating a mirror image and playing with some sort of repeat maybe adding another motif. This image was picked out as an endearing, however it doesn't link to Evolution: patternation, armour and embellishment.

Drawing used to mark image onto lino using pencil on the back, traditional tracing technique.

Lino print using an interesting duck egg colour with more green than previously mixed to add a more vintage feel. Paper is just old news print.
This is the drawing I used to create my Lino cut.I put a lot of pencil on the back   lined it up on the Lino and pressed down on the the paper with a pencil to trace on to Lino. I then cut Lino background away so what is left is printed. I choice to cut a halo effect which is similar to some day of the dead crosses I have previously seen within altars.