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This is a relief print I did for my BFA Senior Exit Show. It is made using a five layer reduction. I started with a bottom layers as a flat blend roll on the bottom from grey to transparent. I continued to use blends in almost every layer but with a lot of transparency in the ink, so that the bottom layer would continue to affect the layers on top.

This series is about my ideas of spirituality, Buddhism and nature. The idea of the forest as a temple and the idea of mystery.

This print is 3ft x 2ft and is printed without borders on Japanese kitakata paper.

Reference image by Meredith Farmer used with permission
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This print is for sale in my etsy shop.
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:icontioungaro:
Classy
check my op art lino though: [link]
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Mood: Dumbfounded ~MelissaLeeBaker Mar 13, 2013   Traditional Artist
This is an amazing print! I love the transparency, it really makes makes it look like a photograph.
I hope my prints will be that good one day.
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~balochart Mar 28, 2013  New member
well said.
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~BabakoSen Feb 17, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
I never learned how to blend colors to get a gradient back when I took printmaking. Is it as simple as rolling two different inks on thick at the ends and getting thinner as you approach the middle and lay one over the other? Or is there a more defined technique to it?
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:iconmouse2cat:
Generally you want an even thickness of ink across the entire block. You can control opacity by doing blends with transparent base. What is exciting about layering transparent blends on top of each other is that they interact with the layers underneath creating the illusion of greater complexity.
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~BabakoSen Feb 26, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Hmm. I'll have to try to remember that in case I go off to a grad school with a printmaking shop that's open to students outside the art department. I know UF has an art department and it looks like that's where I'll end up, but I suspect funding constraints would restrict access to art students only.
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:iconedwinajmeeuwsen:
This is great! Technical perfection
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:iconridiculyss:
This is incredible! And it's a lino print? Wow...you're very talented! Amazing job. :clap:
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~blackboard-ofnight Aug 16, 2012  Student Traditional Artist
I thought this was a photograph. What you've done with your colors and tones is just exquisite. I really love how this print looks. Great job! :D
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:iconlukehoward:
cant imagine how long that must have taken. great work.
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