Prints.

So, I have been working on prints recently, simply using lino and using the images below as a starting point. The process really interests me as it creates completely unpredictale pieces which can be manipulated and experimented with phsically during the process. I have cut into lino creating quite abstract pieces in preparation. At first, I was creating prints trying to make them look like the image completely, however as my experimentation has gone on I am less and less interested in the original image and more and more interested in basic brush strokes and movements and the actual proess. I want to show this chane of attitude in my piece as it is raw and open and creative in itself. It sort of took over my original idea. I have sort of become addicted to the ink and the strong contrasting images it creates. It just seems bolder yet simpler than any painting or drawing or photoraph to me personally. I think (at the moment) I would like to create a piece which sort of explains the proccess to an audience and shows how versatile it is. However, at the same time I would like to think about the relationship between the original image and what we plan to create, and how the process actually leads this and can completely manipulate it.