Drawing for linocuts

Developing drawing as a skill is something that is lifelong. Drawing for linocuts and linocut design work takes the drawing skills a bit further by using them to work the image into a design that you can use to carve out and print as a linocut print. The two designs below are early works I developed in 2000 for linocut designs. I had decided to not work with flowers in vases – I was aware of Margaret Preston’s linocut work and made the decision to move directly away from her style first by simply not using designs of flowers in … Continue reading Drawing for linocuts