One of my Mari Lwyd linocuts (detail below) features in the current exhibition at the Queen Street Gallery in Neath. The gallery is lovely and Neath is a great little town with a good market, an ancient standing stone, a Roman fort, a Medieval castle, and some tasty eateries. The Gallery is just a fewContinue reading “Let The Train Take The Strain.”
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Sketchbook Archives: 36 – Just Sitting
Some more scribbles from my sketchbooks, this time from December 2013 when I seemed to be sitting in a lot of places with other people just sitting.
Rubbing The Cat With Graphite!
I carried on today with the miniprint design I started a few days ago, using my smallest Flexcut tools. I put a piece of tracing paper over the lino and rubbed it hard with graphite block to see if I’d cut away everything I wanted to. I also gave the lino block a rub with the graphite,Continue reading “Rubbing The Cat With Graphite!”
A Bit Surreal
Here are the other happy accidents I made at Swansea Print Workshop in the week. These are pages of newspapers that I put underneath some cloths soaked in cyanotype chemicals to dry. Once I took them out of the dark room, the colours began to change and I took a digital photo at a particularlyContinue reading “A Bit Surreal”
The Smell Of Bacon.
I carried on today with the miniprint design I started a few days ago. I transferred it to a block of traditional grey lino and started cutting with my Flexcut tools. There’s a way to go yet. The design has been developed from a photo taken by Husb when our little rescue cat Bill (akaContinue reading “The Smell Of Bacon.”
A Happy Accident…
I was down at Swansea Print Workshop for an hour or so today, preparing some Bockingford paper with cyanotype chemicals for new work I hope to do this weekend. There was a fair bit of the solution left over and I happened to have some white cotton cloth with me, so I soaked the clothContinue reading “A Happy Accident…”
A New Design for Lino
I’m teaching a short workshop on linocut printing later this week and I’ve been working on a new design. It’s in Miniprint format, 10 x 10 cms and at that size, it needs to be kept fairly simple, especially for beginners. I’ve started with a photo of our Little Bill, the rescue cat, and shovedContinue reading “A New Design for Lino”
Out Gallivanting – Again
Husb and I were gallivanting again last evening. That’s a great word, my Nana and her generation would use it all the time, but it seems to have fallen out of use. I think it’s time it came back. Anyway, we were out gallivanting at a gig, so I had to have a scribble, didn’tContinue reading “Out Gallivanting – Again”
Birds And Rubbish
I’ve been sorting out my files and I came across some birds I painted in acrylic paint onto clear acetate for a screenprint project a while back, and also a scan of some old fruit netting that I was going to throw away in the rubbish. I’m thinking about how to use them in someContinue reading “Birds And Rubbish”
Sketchbook Archives: 35 – Ankle Biters!!!
Here are some Golden Oldies from my sketchbooks in December 2013, I seem to have drawn a lot of rug rats and ankle-biters! I must have been to some family birthday parties, there were a lot of small sprogs in the family 12 years ago!
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