Linocut: Jeans

I did my first lino cut when I was twelve years old and loved the rustic quality you can get from hand carving…. but I hadn't done another one until a few years ago.  

When the class in engraving and printing was offered at my local art school I got a coveted place in the printmaking class based on my dossier of paintings and the lino- cut was one of our first lessons.  

The teacher brought some old pairs of jeans ( denims, levis) to class and asked us to draw them and I produced this lino cut from that drawing. 

Here is the block printed in black only:  

Here is the block with a second piece of lino cut to the shape of the "jeans" making it a two color print:

close up of print

and here below is the print hand-painted in watercolors: 

 I use BFK Rives archival, velum paper, 280 gram weight for all of my prints.