10 Lee Chae Yeon

Art was drawn on the paper as a reference for the carving.

Transferred the art from my drawing onto my print with a pencil and carving out the "white parts" of the drawing.

The print was carved finished with details added  onto it (etc fur on the rabbit, plants)

Step 1: I outlined the places that I was going to print as black like my hair and the shadows while leaving out some parts as highlights for my face. (Since I took this picture in a well lit place, only a minority of my face needed to be shaded in.)

Step 2: I flipped the paper over and using the LED light board that the teacher provided, I colored in the dark spaces that showed from step 1.

Step 3: I used the transfer paper from the teacher and transferred my work from step 2. (Since I want my final work to look like step 1, we must trace using step 2 as when we print, our work will look opposite to the stuff we cut out on the lino.)

Step 4: I chose my colors for my portrait and colored it in. Pink for the face and blue for the background.  

Step 6: This is my first print. Its very patchy as I did not put a lot of paint onto the lino. However, I can see that the highlights of my face were shown nicely so I do not need to go and cut my lino again.

Step 7: This is my second print. I can still see patches of white on my artwork. However, compared to the first try, there is lesser holes. I should dd more paint to the lino before printing and press down with the weights harder.

Step 8: This is my third print. This time I had put a little bit too much paint on my lino. This caused my highlights to not show and become unclear after I print. I must remember to put the right amount of paint on my lino cut.

Step 9: This is my fourth print. I was told by the teacher that I should wipe the parts of the lino that did not need to be in pink as it might make the background harder to print later on. The paint is still a little patchy but this time all the highlights came out nicely.

Step 10: This is my fifth print and my favourite one. The face came out very clean and the highlights were also well done. Even though the top part is a bit patchy, it does not matter that much as it would be covered by the background and the black.

Step 11: This is my sixth print. It also came out to my satisfaction like the fifth one. (I have printed out a few more of the first color, but they were either like my fifth and sixth prints or were the same mistakes made by me in the first 4 prints and hence were not included)

Step 12: Following the work I did in step 4, after I print pink I must cut pink and print blue. Hence, I cut out my face from the lino while leaving out the places that were supposed to be printed black.

Step 13: This is my first test print. As you can see there is a lot of lines on my forehead and my eyes. Hence I went back to cut the lino deeper.

Step 14: This is my second test print. There was lesser paint on my forehead and my eyes were cut very clean.

 Step 15: This is my first print. I did not put enough paint on my lino and thus it did not cover properly. It could also be that the paint was too light to cover the pink. Some blue also showed on the forehead so I went to cut my lino more before making my second print.

Step 16: This was my second print. This time I used a darker shade of blue and added more paint to my lino. The background is almost perfect with only a bit of white patches. This can be covered up with a paintbrush. The printing of the face does not really matter as he black print will cover it up later.

Step 17: This was my third print. To cover up make sure all the background was covered, I added a lot of paint which caused the face to be smudged. This is bad as the black would not be able to cover my mistakes.

Step 18: For my fourth print, I erased the face so that the same mistake would not happen again. The paint was very dry so when I printed it out, it became very patchy. Hence, I sprayed some water on the paint and reprinted on the same paper.

Step 19: For my fifth print. The background came out very nicely. (I have other prints that I have done good or had made the same mistakes which were not included.)

Step 20: Following step 4, after printing blue, I have to cut blue and print black. Hence, I cut out my whole background.

Step 21: This is my test print. Since this time I cut my background deeply, there were only a few parts of the lino that I needed to cut again.

Step 22: This was my first print of black on one of my failed works to see if there was anywhere else i needed to cut. The black ink was also not put on the lino enough as you can see that it is very patchy.

Step 23: This is my second print. For this print, i had printed this on the wrong template which caused it to not be aligned. However, the black is not patchy and came out very nicely.

Step 24: This is my third print. I really like how my black was printed. However the pink and blue are sadly a bit patchy.

Step 25: This is my fourth print. The black did not fully cover the blue face outline but this is one of the works I am proud of. 

Step 26: This is my last and my favorite print. All the colors came out as I desired :D