STAGE THREE

It was time to add the railway bridge to the lino, which required a degree of accuracy of representation to ensure the bridge faced the correct way from my viewpoint when I captured the idea. In last month’s article I highlighted the need to reverse your photograph as, when printing to lino, the image is reversed on application. I now sketched in the bridge and its supports behind the swans and proceeded to cut fine lines on the structure to catch the light. Once happy with the angles and size of the bridge I removed more lino with a wider cutter. The areas I was targeting were the sky above the bridge and the voids beneath it. This was so that the inks that were about to be applied to the bridge did not ‘invade’ the sky areas