I’m cracking on with some work at my artist residency in Swansea’s Urban HQ . So far I’ve cut 11 small lino blocks and did some research drawing. I brought the 11 little lino blocks with me at the start, ready prepared for carving. I’m now moving on; I’m getting another block prepared for carving, a large oneContinue reading “Artist In Residence: Day 7 – Moving On…”
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Artist In Residence: Day 7 – Learn From The Best
Part of an art practice is research. so I set myself to it on Day 7 of my residency at Urban HQ in Swansea. I’d been having some problems trying to represent dark skin through lino printing so I turned to my book* on the African-American artist Elizabeth Catlett. She was a prolific printmaker, as wellContinue reading “Artist In Residence: Day 7 – Learn From The Best”
Artist In Residence: Day 6 – Skin Tone
It’s Day 6 of my residency at Urban HQ in Swansea, and I carried on carving lino blocks. I’ve been practicing portrait drawing at the life drawings sessions at Swansea Print Workshop and now I’m practicing making the sketches into lino blocks. Most of the models I’m working with are pale-skinned so I’m getting lots of practice withContinue reading “Artist In Residence: Day 6 – Skin Tone”
Artist In Residence: Day 5 – Hacking Lumps
Day 5 of my residency at Urban HQ in Swansea, and I carried on carving lino blocks. This one from an original drawing done with a life model is quite graphic-y. I decided to try out some different tools; I normally use very fine gouges but I went for this broad, slightly concave one which hacks quite bigContinue reading “Artist In Residence: Day 5 – Hacking Lumps”
Artist In Residence: Day 4 – Carry On Carving!
This is the reality of being an artist, you have to make your art and that involves day after day of repetitive slog. There’s no getting around it unless you want to go down the A.I./ laser cutting/ digital printing route, and I certainly don’t. So Day 4 of my residency at Urban HQ in Swansea, IContinue reading “Artist In Residence: Day 4 – Carry On Carving!”
Artist In Residence: Day 3
On the third day of my residency at Urban HQ in Swansea, I carried on carving lino blocks. They are 15cm x 10 cm, traditional grey lino and I’m using Flexcut tools for cutting. If you’re visiting the city centre, please pop in and have a look and pick up a free postcard of my work. TheContinue reading “Artist In Residence: Day 3”
Artist In Residence: Day 2
On the second day of my residency at Urban HQ in Swansea, I carried on carving lino blocks but I also started to put some of my linocuts on display in the space. I’ll add to them as time goes on. If you’re visiting the city centre, please pop in and have a look and pick upContinue reading “Artist In Residence: Day 2”
An Artist In Residence
I have just started an artist residency at Urban HQ in Swansea. It’s a creative hub and café on the site of the old Police Station. I’ll be there throughout April, working on my linocut projects in the little gallery space by the Orchard Street entrance. As the month goes by, I’ll be exhibiting workContinue reading “An Artist In Residence”
Scribbleheads
Chilling out the other evening, I started scribbling some little imaginary heads into my A6 Indigo-bound sketchbook. I rarely draw from my imagination, but it’s something I want to do more of as it stops me being too precious with what I draw.
Scribbling At Home
Just chilling out yesterday evening and I grabbed my little A6 Indigo-bound sketchbook and did some quick scribbling. Nice. Relaxing. Enjoyed. Sometimes art is very hard for me, most of the time in fact, but now and again it’s a gentle and quiet thing to do.
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