Al Fresco Art Club Challenge: Woodcut Style

My inspiration: Frans Masereel, "The City", 1925

Today’s Al Fresco Art Club challengewas to mimic the black and white style of woodcut prints. My reference and inspiration was Frans Masereel’s wordless novel, The City, published in 1925. In one hour I was able to capture only the central character, an exhausted manual laborer who represents the men and women who have toiled to build the city. The City doesn’t have a plot, but it captures the feel of big city life in hard times.