We started off this project by researching two animals and environments to do our print on. I picked a fish and a zebra. We printed off pictures on them and put them in our sketchbooks. Then we made a sketch of each animal integrating the background of one picture with the animal in another so the sketch was our own. Then we picked which one we liked better and we played around with different frame combinations using the viewfinder. When we found which view was the best and sketched that again cleaning it up and making it look better. We then traced it onto tracing paper. On the linoleum we transferred our drawing. We cut out all the white parts of the linoleum. Finally we printed. Placing ink on the block and rolled it with the roller, then rolled that onto the linoleum and set that on the paper and rubbed on the ink. We then removed the paper and our print was done. For me this was a good project although it was very long and involved so many steps. I felt like though these steps the value of my original sketch was lost a little bit. I still think this was successful. I like the finally lavender color I got mixing purple and white. One mistake I made was cutting out the whole piece in the top right corner I wish I would have left an outline. Overall I think this was really fun and a great learning experience.
