This is a linoleum print I did about 5 months ago. I previously posted it in February of this year, but not in color. Valerie my love, the Photoshop genius, showed me some Photoshop tricks. I thought I would try them out on this particular print. The original print is not the greatest. I put the ink on the block too thick and therefore it came off on the paper too thick. I'm still a rank amateur when it comes to printmaking.
I not only filled in the green but darkened the black. I love doing relief printing such as this, but not as much as I like drawing.
I would like to thank France Belleville and her blog, wagonized, for the inspiration to use Photoshop on my drawings and just inspiration in general. I urge you all to check out her drawings. They are truly phenomenal, even the ones she calls mere doodles.
5 comments:
Mark, there's another way you can get even better coverage without having to do the fill in trick.
With your lino print (bw) on the bottom layer, create a 2nd layer and fill it entirely with the dark green. On the layers palette set the green to "darken" It will darken only the white parts and leave the black alone. You can get nice dark blacks on the b/w layer by using the Levels adjustment.
But what about the white eyes? Go back to your b/w layer and select only the whites of the eyes. Use the magic wand tool and hold down the shift key to select more than one part at a time.
You should have "marching ants" in the shape of the selection of the whites of the eyes.
To fill them in create a NEW layer on top of the green layer and use the Fill command to fill them with white. Bingo! No more using the fill bucket, which can be time consuming and tricky to get all the white bits.
I did this a lot when I did soft block carving- you can see some of them here:
http://www.karenwinters.com/pages/carving.html
Photoshop is great because it gives you multiple ways to do anything. This one worked best for me.
Karen
Love your man - tree! Must be complicated to carve this, no? I've bought a carving block and tools but haven't tried yet.
I checked out her blog & yes it is amazing. I did two Photoshop courses with Janee from myjanee.com. One of the ways that she taught to make a photo into a line drawing, made it look like a woodblock print. Fantastic.
Nice to see printmaking happening here.
i have sed it before, and will say it again...i love this! love it!
i would love it on a t-shirt,
i would love it on a mug
i would love it as a tattoo
i would love it as a rug!!!!!
i
love
it!!!
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