Linoleum Prints

For my Linoleum project, I did a Save the Ocean design of which I had to figure out what sea animals I wanted to use and how I wanted to carve them out. It wasn't until I actually carved out the linoleum that I realized the some of the detail I used in the sea animals were going to be difficult to carve around and made the decision to carve them out and then add them into the final piece.

For my sketch idea I first used a led pencil to create my design then used transfer paper to switch my design to the linoleum and then outline with a sharpie.

For this project I used a bunch of pictures of each species to use as references for what I wanted to do for positions of the creatures. I also used my prior knowledge of linoleum carving from my freshman, sophomore and junior year.