INITIAL IDEAS
- Grey gouache paint and lino
- Character and background to be in a light, dream-like grey gouache wash, both in the same environment
- Cat and horse characters to be in solid black and white lino prints that contrast the delicate paintings
- Illustrate that they are not of the same world
PAINTING THE PAGES
- Started all pages with lightest grey gouache paint, very watered down
- All on A3 cartridge paper
- Really tried to balance weight of paint on pages as gouache is built in layers
- Used only black, white, and grey gouache
- Using white last gave a cool blue tint to the paintings, due to being put down onto already-dried grey
- Liked this and wanted to ensure everything remained consistent throughout, therefore made sure to apply white paint last
- Wanted all painting to be very delicately done
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| All finished paintings |
- Added details in brush pen only to character Venna
- Though keeping it delicate, decided the paint job was a little too insipid
- Character wasn't the focal point
- Gave selective outlines to her using a brush pen
CREATING LINO PRINTS
- Black lino ink on white paper for cat
- White lino ink on black paper for horse
- Used tracing paper around sketches and paintings to ensure prints would fit well on page
- Printed and painted everything to size in order to avoid resolution issues with resizing
- Cut everything into smaller stamps
- Allowed them to be labelled and printed more than once
- Used large blade for most, the smaller blade for detail
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| All cat stamps before printing |
My pictures have vanished :(
But all my prints were hung up on my walls to dry
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