First Day

As always I was early for my first day; 45 minutes early to be exact. I was the first one there so I snapped some pictures of the clean studio.

Today I did a lino (linoleum) cut. I focused on a simple still life design it's very similar to a painting a did a bit ago...
Carving the lino is not too difficult but I'm pretty sure my hand is going to be sore tomorrow.
These are my first set of prints done on newsprint with Daniel Smith's water based inks in black.
After my first go at it I decided that I wanted to carve more of the background out.
Then I printed some more...

I'm pleased with how my first plate turned out and I'm really loving this class so far and it's only been one day!