Regular Print
Here’s my completed Regular Show print featuring Mordecai & Rigby. There’s two of them for twice the effect!
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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 small bag of seed potatoes,
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Give us a raise, Loser!
Me and Phil are more than a little obsessed with the cartoon Regular Show. We’ve been working our way through the three series currently being aired on Cartoon Network, and will sadly soon have seen all episodes until series four is aired. If you haven’t seen it, it’s about two 20-something losers (who happen to
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Linocut Test Print -Liu Ye imitation
I managed to find the time to carve some images into lino this week. I’m waiting to buy some better inks, but did some tests prints just to check if they needed further work. Here is one of those test prints: This is a picture of the back of a woman, holding a suitcase. It’s based
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Printed Blue Jay
I carved a couple of small images in lino on Thursday evening. I carved them sat on the sofa in the living room while watching TV which probably isn’t ideal! I was a bit more careful when I printed them at least. The first image is of a blue jay, a bird which is native
Good Fortune (福) in Linocut
I attended a linocut printing workshop at the Barber Institue today (there was an old fashioned gender divide in our house as I did some chores and went to a craft workshop, while Phil went into Liverpool to watch football!). This is the second printing workshop I’ve attended at the Barber. They’re more relaxed than other workshops
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Linocut print – tennis theme
A few months ago I attended a linocut printing day class at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, which is based on the University of Birmingham campus (where I also happen to work). The gallery has long been one of my favorites, as it’s collections are relativity small but of a very high quality. It means that, unlike
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