Lino Workshop

I found the lino printing workshop interesting and unlike what I was expecting. Lino is a method I have zero experience with so I chose quite a simple design to experiment with. I've been looking into the visuals of the Lion King in my visual journal, as the plot is adapted from Shakespeare's Hamlet. The focus of the printed pictures brief for me has been trying to adapt Shakespeare visually for a modern, normal audience, as his plays were written for normal, mostly illiterate people at the time. I want to echo this in my work and use imagery associated with films and music to make Shakespeare accessible and non-elitist. This is basically what the Lion King did by adapting Hamlet, children were learning Shakespeare storylines without even knowing it.
The actual process of cutting the lino was quite difficult and took a few practice offcuts and bleeding fingers to get it right, but once I had a suitable piece of lino and a larger cutting tool I found it a lot easier and able to manipulate the linework. I forgot that the process of printing reverses the design you cut so my prints are all backwards, but I don't think it affects them very much. I'm happy with how they turned out, the ink is more dense in some places than others, but for my first experience with lino I'm happy with them overall.