Social Issue Prints

This is a collection of four prints that represent the issue of suicide. My linoleum print is of a bathtub with a hand hanging out to show that someone had drowned themselves in it. The four gelatin prints that I chose were the four that I felt worked best with my linoleum prints. The only printing material I used was in for both the linoleum and gelatin printing. First we printed the gelatin onto larger pieces of paper. Then after we had figured out what we were going to carve, we printed the linoleum on top of our gelatin prints. I chose to do the issue of suicide because it's something I feel strongly about and think it shouldn't be ignored. I used both light and dark colors within my final prints. There are lighter colors in the background so that the darker bathtub would stand out more. At first my linoleum print was going to be of the entire bathroom and have a smaller tub, but then while carving it I realized that the little hand I was going to carve was too small to see. Therefore I enlarged the carving to just the tub.