Another head of a performer from the Riverside Folk Club a couple of weeks ago. It’s an eclectic mix of music, folk and country, blues and bluegrass, the occasional small choir and even a bit of comedic verse. I drew this with a 2B graphite block into a Khadi sketchbook.
Double Trouble for #Caturday. A collage I did of our new-ish rescue kitty, William Chatnoir (Bill for short). Now she’s settled in, got her paws under the table, she’s a little troublemaker. Like the rest of them! Wouldn’t be without her though xxx
Pulled a couple of long sessions down at Swansea Print Workshop yesterday and this evening to finish these two before the deadline tomorrow – linocut on the left and screenprint on the right. Was supposed to do them last week but had an accident and got concussion! Never mind, all done.
Now I need a nice cup of tea and to bed!
I’m cutting a lot of text, back to front, into traditional grey lino for my latest print. It’s not easy so I regularly use tracing paper to check that I’m doing it right.
I put the tracing paper onto the area I want to check and rub it with a block of 2B Graphite so I can see what’s been cut and what hasn’t.
I was at the Riverside folk club the other evening and scribbled away in my sketch book. This performer was deeply focused, very wrapped up in performing. I used a 2B Koh-i-Noor graphite block into a square Khadi handmade paper sketchbook.
This guy was a hoot at the Riverside Folk Club the other evening. No refined refrains for him, straight into some robust renditions of saucy songs.
Sometimes I just want to draw for the sheer joy of it. Some people love to sing, or to run as fast as they can. I love to draw. I was at the Riverside folk club the other evening and scribbled away in my sketch book. I often draw musicians and audiences at music events, the folk club crowd tend to be a bit more sedate than the headbangers, so I can spend more time on the drawings. I used a 2B Koh-i-Noor graphite block into a square Khadi handmade paper sketchbook.
Last week I did 3 versions of my drawing of Miner’s Wives confronting the police (1984/85) onto Mark Resist film (see below). Today I chose the fine line drawing on the right to develop with Indian Ink and brushes. There’s still a lot to do before I expose it onto a photo-sensitised screen but I feel like I’m on my way now. I’m thinking of adding another police officer on the left and a couple more shadowy ones in the bus window.
I really like the haphazard way the ink washes spread randomly on the film. I can also work back into the inked areas like hair with a cocktail stick, scraping detail into it.
I’ve started cutting into the lino block about the Miner’s Wives that I have been designing for what seems like ages! I really want to get this right, though. It contains a lot of text, which is really hard to cut, especially backwards. Here are the first cuts.
I’m doing a couple of prints inspired by the Welsh Miner’s Wives in the strikes of 1984-1985. I’ve finalised the content for the linocut and today transferred the drawing and text – backwards – onto a 30×30 cms block of soft grey hessian-backed lino. I sharpened my tools (Flexcut) on the leather slip strop and the little blades glided through the lino like a hot knife through butter, releasing that unmistakeable smell of linseed oil. That’s one of the things I really enjoy about making art, it’s so tactile, it arouses many senses.
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