Studio Thursday at the Johnson was an excellent respite from the week, that required a lot of creativity and foresight as well! The art project involved carving out parts of a linoleum tile. Then, we went on to overlay the tile with a layer of paint. Final, we used the tile as a stamp, and got a print of the negative image of our carved linoleum. There’s the catch, everything you carve out of the linoleum will be lighter than the stuff you leave on. Once you’ve carved out some of the material – there is no going back! Another catch is that any words or lettering you carve will be printed as a mirror image.

As it was the Thursday before BreakFree was going to travel to World of Dance Boston, I proceeded to carve out our iconic BreakFree symbol that we often make with our hands. I wanted the hand to be darker, so I have to carve out all of the negative space, and leave in the positive space. I also wanted to carve our BreakFree logo in positive space. This was the hardest part –  I had to carve around the BreakFree logo’s mirror image, so that the logo would be read from right to left on the print, and it would be darker (in positive space). After I finished carving out all the negative space on my print, I wanted to give my hands some texture, so I proceeded to carve out little lines along the hand to show the line of sight on the piece. I wanted the lines to lead my line of sight to the middle of the BreakFree hand symbol. After I was done with all of the carving, I coated the linoleum in the color read, another BreakFree symbol, and made the prints. Below is a picture of how they turned out!