A reduction print is when you take the same printing plate and print different colors with it, removing more and more material from it. Here I first printed everything in yellow then removed more material and printed the black part.
I love the absolutistic feel of it. Once you go to the next color there is no going back.
Interesting!
Never heard of this before! So, on the second pass you remove the parts that are yellow? I can see how that would work for the flowers but not for the black marks, unless you removed all the white area as well? Or did you draw them in with knife or something afterwards?
There are two passes: first you remove everything that should stay white, then print everything else in yellow.
The you remove everything that stays yellow and. Print the final layer in black
Ahh of course you remove the white first. What material are you using for the printing plate? I saw someone win an art competition doing something similar using a wooden block, the amount of work that went into it was enormous.
I'm using linoleum
Thank you.
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Has a groovy retro feel. I like it.