[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-lucy-knisley-lino-cut-portrait":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"I just made another lino cut portrait! This one's of comics artist \u003Ca href=\"http://www.lucyknisley.com/\">Lucy Knisley\u003C/a>, and it doesn't look too much like her, but lino cut is not an exact science, so I'm not too worried about that. Here's the inked-up block:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/lucy_linocut_block-54062c3fee.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd the first print! I assume the ink is called 'relief ink' because that's what I feel when I see all that cutting didn't come  out too badly.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/lucy_linocut_photo-a3466214d4.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nIt's so fun having a house guest who loves to draw. Here's a painting Lucy made of the two of us watching the U.S. election results and Obama's speech. (Taken from her \u003Ca href=\"http://lucyknisley.tumblr.com/post/35347422396/me-and-jabberworks-on-a-sunny-london-morning\">Tumblr blog\u003C/a>.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://lucyknisley.tumblr.com/post/35347422396/me-and-jabberworks-on-a-sunny-london-morning\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/lucy_knisley_obama-6fabb227c7.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nLucy also played this song on my ukulele while she was staying with us, and you can see a video of it here!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Clj-embed id=\"2334\"/>\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for more under the cut!-->\\r\nHere are a couple photos of the lino cut process: cutting the linoleum tile, and the original pencil sketch.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/lucy_linocut_block_cut-2529a26b10.jpg\" width=\"330\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/lucy_linocut_sketch-43723269e9.jpg\" width=\"247\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd here's a photo of Lucy's sketchbook, the inked drawing before she painted it.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/lucy_knisley_obama_ink-47a8529b4b.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nKeep an eye on \u003Ca href=\"http://lucyknisley.tumblr.com/\">Lucy's Tumblr page\u003C/a> to see what else she's getting up to on her Oscar Wilde comic research trip!","2012-11-11T10:43:00.000Z","lucy-knisley-lino-cut-portrait",[],"lucy knisley lino cut portrait",1776628724428]