The Land Worker
1930
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1930
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Haydn Mackey’s print "The Land Worker" shows a farmer at work. It’s part of his experiments with hand-colored linocuts and woodcuts around 1930. Though the colors look printed, he painted them in reverse on tracing paper then flipped it onto oatmeal paper. His trick was hand-coloring with oil paint on the back of the proof. The paint stayed hidden until flipped. The effect tricks the eye into thinking it’s a colored print. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum for more of his proofs.
