A friend who has been involved in organising a literary festival asked if I’d like to create a lino-print poster for the event. This is what I came up with. All of the elements of the image (excluding the date) were printed from lino blocks but were then compiled together […]
Literary Festival Lino Poster Read More »
Although my Christmas cards this year are handmade I didn’t make each one individually by hand in the same way I have in previous years, instead I created the design in Illustrator and printed them from the PC. To give them a more hand-crafted feel I decided to create a stamp
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This is my second film star lino cut print in a couple of weeks. This time the subject is Ruan Lingyu, 阮玲玉. Ruan was a big star of the Shanghai film industry in the 1930s. She has become an idol partly due to her suicide at the age of 24,
Ruan Lingyu (阮玲玉) Lino Print Read More »
I’ve neglected the blog lately as there’s been so much going on at work and at home. Last Sunday, however, I managed to find some time to do some printing. Pictured below is the end result. It’s a four-colour linocut print, size 4″ x 6″. I’m new to working with multiple colours /
Courtesan linocut print inspired by Harunobu Read More »
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.
Happy Easter – cheep cheep! Read More »
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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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):
Liu Ye inspired linocut print Read More »
Here’s my completed Regular Show print featuring Mordecai & Rigby. There’s two of them for twice the effect!
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
Hotel room linocutting Read More »