Lino Cutting and Orphism

LO: To develop an understanding of Sonja Terk Delauney, Orphism and colour theory through lino cut print making. We should also be cementing our understanding of leading lines and focal points in completing these.

For the past two weeks in art, we have been working on preparing for lino cut print making. We drew six or more thumb nail sketches, with colour and annotations pointing out it's key features, and from there chose the two which we not only liked the most, but had the most prominent leading lines, a focal point, and the one which resembled the art from the most.

Here are the two final thumbnail sketches I chose

Here is the full page of all my thumbnail sketches

Once we had chosen our two thumbnail sketches, we chose the one which worked best, and thought of ways we could turn the design into two layers in order to split it and put it on two different bits of lino. Then after drawing our two layers onto two different bits of lino, we started cutting.

To begin with, some of my thumbnail sketches didn't have a very definitive focal point, but I managed to change that with the use of colour, and I think it quite closely resembles the art form of Orphism.