I chose a really simple design this time and chose my favourite cat! That way the positives and negatives would be easy to make (I have seriously over complicated them in the past).
It worked surprisingly well! I carried through the yellow and blue colour from earlier Lino experiments and I think they are definitely going to be colours I bring through to my final pieces as they work so well together. I picked them mostly because that's how i feel when I read the books. Listening to jazz and reading makes me think of dark blue tones and when something exciting and happy happens in the books the yellow is where I feel that from.
LIKES
- I thought these came out so well, there was something about them that I really liked. I could see myself making a set of these potentially. It was very simple but alluded to a lot of murakamis themes (leaves for passing of time, hands for possession and the cat as the females in his books that are so often lusted after).
- Lining it up was easy
- The colours worked well together and overlaid
DISLIKES
- Had a nightmare with pulling the first few, too much ink got on the screen at first and a few of the pulls came out far too thick even for a simple design like this (it ruined the hands and whiskers on parts).
- It feels too simple at this point to choose it as a final, Murakami's works are so weird and distorted I'm not sure this shows that so I think I'm going to carry on making some more work and if nothing is as nice as this then I will come back to it.
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