If you didn't know already I'm a dancer and thats where I got my inspiration for this piece. This once I drew the dancer I did somewhat of a Zentangle design around her. The carving was by far the harder part. I found myself pushing the handle of the tools onto the top of my other hand to pull the blade up. It took us almost 2 weeks to carve and we had another week to print. I was the last one to finish carving because of how detailed parts of it were. The pictures show my progression of carving.
When I talked to my dad about this project he told me about how when my parents first got married he carved their Christmas card out of linoleum like this. I brought some of the blocks in to show my classmates and we all thought it was pretty cool.