I was a bit slow making Easter cards this year, but finally got around to making some – just in time! I opted for a fritillaria design. The fritillaria image is a linocut print, which I’ve tidied up & added text to in Adobe Illustrator.
This week, I tidied up a previous linocut print to create a digital print of the image. The image is based on a woodblock print of the famous courtesan Shiratama by Harunobu.
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 …
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, …
A new monochrome linocut print, carved and printed last weekend and finally cut to size and framed this week. It’s sized 5″ x 7″ and printed on a pale purple card. The image is based on a photo of Louise Brooks. Brooks fascinates me. Her life story is a perfect tragic …
中秋节快乐 / Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! Today is Mid-Autumn Festival, an important holiday in the Chinese lunar calendar. Mooncakes (月饼), pastry cakes which normally contains red bean or lotus seed paste and salted duck egg yolk, are eaten at the Festival and are frequently given as gifts (they tend to be quite expensive). …
Last Saturday was my Dad’s birthday so I printed him a card featuring one of his favourite things – rallying. I decided on an image of a Subaru, my Dad’s favourite, throwing up a cloud of dust. I had a go at printing it on both a white & recycled card, and it’s available …
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 / …
Me and my team mates at work are in the process of organising a charity craft, cake and plant fair. All proceeds from the fair will be donated to two cancer charities nominated by a colleague who is currently undergoing treatment for cancer. The fair isn’t until the 16th August …
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):