The image size of this collagraph measures 12.5" x 19". This guy caused me some problems. I originally wanted this to be a black and white image. I liked the texture on the background but
knew it would cause me problems and it did. It was just too much so I tried to tone the background back a bit which you can see below. I was still not happy and decided to add color. That too was a challenge. Anyway you can see the progression thus far.
Very awesome print! I love that you showed the plate before printing!! How many plates did you use for this print?
ReplyDeleteI used two plates. The plate at the bottom of this posting was used to print the textures in black. The second plate is illustration board with canvas mounted to it. I first inked the background of the second plate up with white and you can see the result. Which I actually don't think looks bad at this point. But I decided it needed something else . . . so I used the same plate and inked it up with green and printed the green over the white. I decided to hand color the dragonfly because registration is pretty difficult with such small sections of color. Thanks for the interest!
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