Designing – Redesigning and ‘Re-tweeking’ Linocut Designs

Sometimes I do some drawings and leave them in my sketchbooks for later reference. Likewise with some linocut designs – for a number of reasons including not being fully happy with a particular design I will set them aside.

In the case of two designs this is what happened. I had worked up both a Hakea and Grevillea design in a larger format of the Design Series but I wasn’t really happy with them so to the side they went.

Whilst working on some new square 15cm x 15cm designs I went back to my file and found these older designs, re-scanned them and had another look at them reformatting them into the new square designs using photoshop. I then photocopied them and produced several different size formats of the various elements of the work.

From there with trusty black felt pens, liquid paper, scissors and glue I went to work at ‘re-tweeking’ the designs.

At this point I am still not sure about whether I will cut these designs but I thought I’d show one of the processes I use in designing. At times I will work designs parts of designs through on the computer or photocopy them and cut sections up. It is just another method that can be useful in designing.