Negative space linocut

White shapes on black cardboard, an exercise on positive and negative spaces.

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We’ve all experienced a creative rut, and it’s always nice to have a helping hand to pull us out. To the rescue today is Staci Swider!

Karl Hennemann via

Note- this exercise is severely out of sequence in the assignment; despite being a trained horticulturalist my ability to kill pot plants is legendary, so having found the perfect specimen I really needed to seize the moment. On another note, my main camera has died and the photos here are taken on my back-up compact camera, apologies for the inferior quality. Amid the instructions for this exercise was this rider: "you may need to add enough lines to make the image readable to the viewer"…

today is going to be awesome. sara jensen surface, print designer and illustrator. moved from new york city to a tiny island in the pacific northwest.

Bristol cut paper

Note- this exercise is severely out of sequence in the assignment; despite being a trained horticulturalist my ability to kill pot plants is legendary, so having found the perfect specimen I really needed to seize the moment. On another note, my main camera has died and the photos here are taken on my back-up compact camera, apologies for the inferior quality. Amid the instructions for this exercise was this rider: "you may need to add enough lines to make the image readable to the viewer"…

So its over. I'm home from my last day of school in who knows how long. I know I've been complaining endless for the last year about how much I can't wait to get my free time back, but I'm going to miss it. I have a pretty good feeling that I'll be back eventually. Bye school, I'll miss you. Oh and a recap to the reactions from my class on my hut project: I found it somewhat amusing that no one really got the concept I built my hut around. It was more interesting to see all the different…