Surface Pattern

Linocut reduction prints turned into repeat patterns. The designs are carved out of linoleum by hand and printed on paper. After making high resolution scans, colours were applied digitally in Photoshop.

Reduction linocut is a technique in which multiple colours are printed from one single block, with more and more of the linocut carved away after each print. This way the colours are printed on top of each other in layers, partially or completely covering the previous layers.

For these surface pattern designs, the reduction layers were printed separately and scanned, merging them together digitally in Photoshop. Each design has three colour layers.

linocut | photoshop | surface pattern design