I would like to have called this post ‘Destruction, Suffering and Redemption’
(or to put it another way, ‘I Don’t Know What Gets Into Me, Really I Don’t….’)
So anyway, here goes…..
Above is the original version of my linocut ‘Destination Anywhere’.
The first block, which was originally printed in dark blue, but now is turquoise….
The second block stays red but I feel the figures need shadows to stop them floating in mid-air …
In that case, there’s nothing for it but to cut a whole new second block…
Moving on, I decide that the fourth and final block should move up the printing order to third place. So here it is inked up, in what is now pale yellow but was originally orange….
At this point I decide I’d quite like a pale yellow sky too and so I remove the original
sky area and glue in a new section. Then I have to cut out the detail to match the rest….
And finally here is the last block with a big 4 written on it, to remind myself that it is not now the third block printed in pale yellow but the fourth block printed in pale blue……
And here is the new version – I’m not sure if it was all worth it or not but I should be able to tell once I’ve been released from the sanitorium…