Four Final Linoleum Prints

The subject of my creations is a fish linoleum print that I made. One of the prints is a solid color, one is is multi-color, one is is on a non-traditional surface, and the last one is extended. The work was made by carving my own design out of a rubber block, and spreading block ink on it. I then pressing it on paper, a magazine page, and on one of my gelatin prints. I did the extended print by coloring with colored pencils. I chose to make the solid color print blue because I thought it would look good for a fish. Same goes for the multi-colored print. I chose to print the fish on that magazine page because it was underwater. I chose to do my extension like that because I wanted it to look completely abstract.

Some techniques that are shown include emphasis and balance in the three non-extended prints. Balance is shown in how all of the fish are centered and nothing around them terribly distorts this balance. Emphasis is shown because the fish, being the center piece, are very emphasized. Color and patterns are shown in the extended print because, well, I think it speaks for itself. My extended print evolved because I kept adding different colors to make the piece more interesting.

The meaning behind the magazine paper I chose was that it had to relate to the print, hence being a picture of underwater. In art class we had to make many prints in order to get the best four, so these are the prints that I, personally, thought were really cool. These prints relate to my life because sometimes I feel like the fish, all alone, in a very large, cold ocean.