Two-Stage Woodcut

I had a hard time photographing this print because it's so big (about 16"x30") printed with silver ink so this is from an odd angle--it's a little distorted. It's a woodcut printed in two stages. For the first stage, I printed the back of the block with black. After it dried I printed the next layer, which was the cutout face in silver on top of the black background. I didn't like the way the block looked but after printing I am really happy with how it came out. The printing process was inspired by Picasso, who would print the back of the block in black and then the carved block in white so it would look like a line drawing--I just chose not to use white ink.