It’s my brother’s birthday today. When we were younger it used to be really easy to buy him presents because we never had enough money to buy all the things we wanted, but now he has enough money to buy himself all the games & clothes he wants so he’s really difficult to buy presents […]
Screen printed tees for a brother who has everything 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 Maison Ikkoku. The print was
Kyoko Otonashi Lino Cut Print Read More »
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 & have managed to get
Hotel room linocutting Read More »
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,
Printing and potatoes Read More »
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
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
Good Fortune (福) in Linocut Read More »