Wood Cut Galore

So since I began college, I have been dying to get into the printing room and I have eventually managed to make a woodcut of a map and print it as many times as I can on different mediums and using so many different colours.

This is the wood cut when i had finished cutting out everything that was going to be left white. It was so difficult to cut out some of the tiny sections and took me about 7 or 8 hours in total to do.

The following are just a selection of some of the prints on paper that i did. Each time a printed the block, i left it to dry and then rotated and printed the block on top using the same/different colour each time. I think they look really interesting and really capture the chaos of maps. The few that have a colour in the backround were done by monoprinting onto the paper first and then printing the map onto it.