Preliminary drawing

Having bought a large piece of lino I wanted to think very carefully about what to put onto it, and to consider it before just working straight onto it, this meant a long process of drawing and figuring out what worked and what did not, I found using black pens as a way of mapping out how the print might look and making small models of how it might look let to two drawing that I thought were quite striking as images and might work well as a print, particularly in lino using very strong lines. These drawings were my initial ideas, I than made a small version of how the print would look, and felt that it would work well on large scale.