Relief Printmaking Skills Set - Colour Reduction prints

 

My final assessment on my relief printmaking TAFE course was a set of colour reduction jigsaw lino prints with the theme urban landscape. The whole image is splint into 6 separate blocks which can be inked individually and then fit together like a jigsaw. The plate is inked, printed and then more cut away before the process is repeated again. There are 4 or 5 layers on these prints. Some of the blocks were also inked with 2 colours at the same time to give a graduated effect. Each print has around 20 different colours in it.