Interesting Art Technique Installment 2

Welcome to the second installment of "Interesting Art Technique"! The techinque I will be focusing on in this blog is called Suicide Relief printing. It is a printmaking technique that is often used with a linoleum block. The process starts with a blank piece of linoleum. To create a suicide print you need to have a multicolored rough draft, for example, an apple. A more specific example would be a red apple with white highlight, green stem, and white background. The first thing you would carve away would be the white background and the highlight. You would then print many prints in the next lightest color, green. After you printed all the green you would then carve anything that you would want to keep green away, leaving the pieces that you want red behind. You would then print red to complete a simple suicide print.
 
This a suicide print that I did a few months ago. It had 5 colors to it, and was a very long process. But I think it turned out really nice and it was one of my favorite projects in printmaking class. So yeah, I think that this process is a really interesting technique and something that would good to blog about.