Row on Row - Reduction Lino Print 2

I'm really pleased with how this print has turned out. Amazing what a little practise will do, it already takes only a third of the time to print as the first try I did. I'm excited for what that means as I get better.

Here is the second colour:

But the big excitement comes with the black layer:

Of the eight I started out with, four turned out well enough for me to be happy with them, so those are the ones I'm keeping, numbering, and, I hope, selling. They're now on Etsy.

Row on Row - Reduction Lino Print 1

This was one of the photos I took a couple months back in a flooded cemetery.  (Take a look at the original post.) Since I've been thinking about working with more reduction lino prints after the first one, but with a simpler image, I pulled them out again as an option. I thought that because the shapes are fairly straightforward and there was no need for colour I could use this as a image to practise my technique with.

I started by separating the image into different colour layers in Photoshop, which gave me a good idea of what I'd have to carve. I'm getting better at thinking in terms of negative space, but it's still very foreign.  This is a good image for me to learn because I'm only going to need three layers. I also flipped it , so that it comes out correctly once it's printed:

With the first layer printed so far it looks like this. I didn't need to ink the entire way, since that will be covered by the other colours, which is why it just sort of trails off: