My inspiration for this work was that I wanted to carve a bunch of large faces into my linoleum block. I also wanted them not to be too realistic or detailed because ot would take too long. So I carved out 4 faces that somewhat correlate to emotions, then I eventually decided on carving out some white space to eventually create smaller faces later on.

Ink, pen, and markers on 12" x 18" paper

My process was to first sketch my design onto the linoleum block, then carve out the space that I wanted to be white. Then I ran a bunch of prints to find out what I wanted to change and what I liked. And once I found a print I liked, I extended it by coloring and adding the faces into the white space.