Cherry Tree Lino Series

Googling and Pinterest ink cherry tree art (mostly Japanese), and getting an idea of techniques.

 

Lots to choose from.

 

Ironically still haven't found the image that first inspired me to carve the cherry tree.  It was a reduction print and I want to find it.

This is the image I think I'll start with.

 

Mostly blossoms, with the deer in the corner.

I'll probably give the blossoms more of a sweep toward the deer.

I think my tree is a weeping cherry blossom tree.  Looks like pics of it anyway.

 

 

Weeping cherry blossom trees.

 

Linogravure ~ I like it

I like the term linogravure.  It's french for linocut prints, but it's reminiscent of photogravure. 

 

I'm planning out some printing projects.  I'm going to be working in linocut.

One series is the cherry tree in its various twisty forms and denizens.  Fox, deer, barn (ok, not a denizen, but a recurring motif).

 

Some as reduction prints, especially if I want to play with the green (lichen) and pink (blossoms) combination.

 

Other subjects:  my cryptids, like my chimera cat-bird critters.

Probably better suited to bw with color added.