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For the cover of our April issue, we commissioned London-based linocut illustrator Nick Morley to make a print of MAD’s Absolute Towers in Toronto. We asked him to take us through the process behind the artwork.
image: Nick Morley He then inks up both blocks using a roller. He uses a printout of the rough (seen on the left) for guidance.
image: Nick Morley A close-up view of the black block.
image: Nick Morley And the red block.
image: Nick Morley Morley presses the red block onto paper to make the print and then does the same with the black on top. Lining up (registering) the blocks correctly is a tricky process but Morley says “I deliberately offset it a bit to give it a hand-made look.”
image: Nick Morley Morley made a few versions to get the colour exactly right. He tested out how much ink to use on the paper and the pressure to apply on the press. The finished image was then scanned to us and set up as the cover. “That’s it,” he says. “No photoshopping or adjusting. What you see on the cover is pretty much how it came out.” An exhibition of the illustrator’s work entitled “Nick Morley’s World of Wonder” will be at Material Gallery in Ludlow from 16 April – 13 May 2011. |
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