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Marilyn 1:

This is the first of these scroll-saw art projects I did.

Just a little bit ambitious for a first attempt; but I like it.

This  image on the left was the first computer image I ever created.

I drew the black & white image on a computer, with a very strange and basic mouse, in about 1985 (a long time ago).

The black & white image was very ‘dotty’ (raster) so I played with it a lot to make it more solid black & white, then converted it to the line drawing (vector) image below it (using the excellent (and free) ‘InkScape’ software).

This was then used to create the final wood-cut below.

It’s cut from 6 mm thick, pale, fine-grained baltic-birch plywood, on a 6 mm thick black background.

It’s 21 cm wide x 30 cm tall.

Some people aren’t so keen on this one, but I’ve had this image with me for so long now. I think it’s probably still my favourite.