Levigator Press

Carving the first colour for a reductive woodcut:

I realized while teaching the reductive woodcut class that I don’t have a sample printed in stages that I can show, which would help people grasp the concept of working in reductive layers. So I started this block with an image of a Tim Hortons cup abandoned in ploughed-up roadside snow. The parts that are carved out now are what will remain white in the final print.

The colour progress will probably be as follows:

-pale gray

-pale blue

-darker gray

-yellow (just in the cup and a few highlights on the snow)

-red

-brown