You didn’t think I just did the ‘Birds of Paradise’ prints did you? Here is my second ever lino print based on a kind of macro view of Geraldton Wax – now hand-coloured with inks. The colour scheme is totally my own (the poor things don’t come in yellow) so went for a complementary one, in colours I […]
July 17, 2011
If you have an exceptional memory you may remember that in my New Prints – peek post, part of one of these linoprints featured. I always intended to colour these later and that’s what I spent a rainy Sunday afternoon doing last weekend. This was my first experience of inks and I used Dr.Martin’s India […]
May 7, 2011
It never ceases to amaze me how productive a deadline can make one. Me, in particular. Tomorrow I have booked the Printmakers Assoc studio so I can use their beautiful big etching press. This afternoon there was a veritable lino frenzy as scraps went flying… I spent Tuesday afternoon cutting up suitable sizes and drawing […]
March 6, 2011
Do you ever feel like busting out? Well today my friend Jules and I did. In a relaxed, we’ve-got-no-agenda kind of way. With a ‘we-can-go-wherever-the-road-takes-us-and-who-cares-where-we-end-up’ type of abandon. Sure, we only had 9 hrs, but I think it’s the attitude that counts, right? I thought I’d illustrate this with one of my more recent lino prints based […]
July 24, 2011
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