Linocut : Pear and Bottle

Here is a linocut I did last year in what I call the Matisse-ian style. Matisse did lots of line drawings with black and white.  

I have a few of this print in my kitchen .  They make a good graphic display when there is more than one.  

 I might try this image with a "reduction method" one day.  For example , leave the background , print it and then carve it away and continue with the other elements.  It is hard to "get my head around" reduction prints but I am experimenting with one now. 

In this colored one I printed a yellow background on a plain piece of linoleum, then I rolled up the print in red and printed over it.