It’s Saturday evening and husb and I have a dreaded lurgi. Nothing serious, just one of those nasty bugs that make you feel achey and miserable. I spent most of the day at the Print Workshop, proof printing a couple of blockprints I’m working on [I posted a bit about them a couple of days ago]. It went reasonably well; one of the blocks is fine and doesn’t need any more cutting, but the other needs a bit of tidying up. What I really wanted to find out though is if the concept worked and I’m pleased with it, so next week I’ll cut another 13 blocks. They’re quite small, only 15x15cms so it shouldn’t take too long.
Anyway, because it’s been a long day at the printshop and I’m feeling yucky with the lurgi, I’m cheering myself up by posting one of my blockprints of my psychokitteh, Sparta. When she was a kitten she used to run up our voile curtains. One day I grabbed a digital camera and took a load of photos. Some of them captured her throwing some weird shapes, so I made drawings from them and cut a series of 5 woodblocks, which I editioned. This is one of the series. It really emphasises the flexibility that cats have. She’s stopped running up curtains now because she’s too BIG. Because she’s found pensioners to exploit and she’s getting quite tubby.
Woodcut printed in Intaglio Printmaker litho/relief ink onto Zercoll 145gsm paper.
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My god, you do everything 🙂 You must live in an area that has a lot going on in the arts. I checked out the workshop link…..way cool 🙂
Yes there is a lot going on around here, but it’s mostly because artists get together and get on with it, very little public funding. The print workshop is fab – it’s been going for 13 years now.
I hope you get well soon….We have a cat that has destroyed our curtains and they really look terrible.
I’m fine thanks – just a short-lived Winter bug. We used our curtains as anti-bird nets on our vegetable patch and bought new ones when she got too fat to run up them lol