Happy Easter – cheep cheep!
Happy Easter everyone, here is the little chick print I created for my Easter cards this year. and here are the cards I made – lined up on my fireplace to dry post printing.
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Kyoko Otonashi Lino Cut Print
I haven’t posted lately as me and Phil have been in Cornwall for the past week, sans wi-fi. Today, however, I managed to get time for printing & to update the blog. Below are some new prints – printed this morning – of Kyoko Otonashi from Rumiko Takahashi’s manga series
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Liu Ye inspired linocut print
A simple monochrome linocut print, in purple, based on Liu Ye’s 2008 painting Going. The original is below (image from Sperone Westwater, click the image to visit the site):
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International Craft & Hobby Fair, Birmingham
This week at the Birmingham National Exhibition Centre (NEC) there was a four day craft and hobby fair. It covered a wide range of crafts, with a particular focus on paper crafts (particularly card making) and textiles (lots of knitting, embroidery, patchwork). There were a range of artists & collectives
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Regular Print
Here’s my completed Regular Show print featuring Mordecai & Rigby. There’s two of them for twice the effect!
Hotel room linocutting
I’m away from home for a conference on behalf of work this week. Unfortunately the conference is at Stansted airport so there’s no opportunity for sightseeing/shopping, although the hotel serves waffles & maple syrup for breakfast so it’s not all bad;) I brought along lots of linocutting supplies on the off chance
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Jung Chang on Happiness
This evening I went to see Jung Chang give the Baggs Memorial Lecture at the University of Birmingham on the topic of happiness. I love both of Chang’s books Wild Swans and Mao so was very keen to hear her speak in person. She did give a previous lecture at the
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Printing and potatoes
Phil spent this Sunday helping his mom buy and set-up a new TV, which gave me time to get a few jobs done at home. Now that the weather has improved (hopefully) I thought it was time to start planting some vegetables. I made a start today by planting a
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Happy craft shopping in Manchester
Manchester is a bit of a haven for craft shopping. The absolute best shop (in my humble opinion) is Fred Aldous, a three story craft shop. It’s a local business and has been in business (in one form or another) since 1886. We made two trips there in two days.
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Chen Man exhibition at the Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester
Me and Phil spent the weekend in Manchester, visiting galleries, shopping & generally wandering around. One of the reasons we made the trip was to see the Chen Man exhibition at Chinese Arts Centre. Chen Man is a leading fashion photographer within China, but this is her first solo exhibition
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