Halftone Crow
linocut print, 8"x6"
prints available at my shop:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/880642762/halftone-crow-blockprint
@joshmillard Did you hand cut the lino? I've had reasonable success with laser cutting halftones in paper and wood.
@th fifteen, seventeen, it's a lot of pentagons is the key thing
@th @joshmillard I was going to make a snarky flatlander comment but now I'm stuck deep down a hyperbolic plane tiling rabbit hole
@joshmillard I've used the laser to score fold lines in cardstock. Hadn't thought about using it to outline shapes for hand cutting. That's clever!
@th Yeah. The main lino thing I did with it was light scoring on four iterations of a Hilbert curve when I wanted to do a fairly precise four-block print. Could have hand drafted all the guidelines like I usually do but there wasn't really any upside to that in this case other than purism for purism's sake and fuck that noise; I'm still gonna make all the knife marks by hand anyway.
@th This is that print, and also the fourth-iteration block printed in isolation.
@joshmillard super pretty! looks almost like a silicon die shot with the multiple layers. Our CNC path planner was overjoyed with the Hilbert curve for the top of this step stool.
@th Ooh, love that paper halftone shadow approach, that's really cool.
Lino was all handcut, yeah; my interest right now is mostly in seeing what I can pull off by hand with this.
Have used my laser a couple times for layout of complex geometric forms with a very light score on the lino surface vs. having to hand draft the whole thing. I may do more of that for future technical concepts (been thinking about doing all 17 pentagon tiling variations, which would be a pain to draw out manually).