Printmaking in a park!

Any excuse to get out the house on such a beautiful day!

A night scene in North Bournemouth Allotments, with sketchbook below.

Allotment Sheds

Glassprinting

Yesterday I tried impossibly difficult stencil printing onto a glass vase, I think it could look really cool but I have to work out a better way of doing it to make it easier, a lot of thinking about this is next. Hope to work it out!

Good Morning, Bournemouth Cemetry.

I chose a landscape that I found eerily beautiful and went colour mad. I love printmaking.

Thank You

I made this card as a thank you to illustrator Matthew Richardson who 

has kindly donated a print of his work for our fund raising evening. 

"Botanical Art" New prints!

Aah what a long day! I finished my 'aubergine prediction print', Twice! 

Here they both are - as well as a photo of my real Aubergine babies.. 

I have just sent these off to Artist and Illustrators Magazine for their Botanical Art issue.

Welcome to the world little aube!

So.. after a few weeks of having almost entirely given up on my little aubes sprouting, I finally found my first baby, unfurling itself out of the soil! Excited, I carried it around the house, introducing it to my housemates. Welcome to the world little aube!

Aubergine Prediction

A work in progress...

that's three things that is

The spoon bent and broke, and I chopped a worm in half with it. Poor worm.

I know Size-ism isn't cool, but that fork - small and useless!

The spatula is too important for cooking eggs, I cant risk it.

Tool Academy

My first tentative steps into the garden, armed with a spatula...

I call this piece 'tool selection, the line up'

A mono print using a roller, stencils and inks.

Winner!

In a silent auction I bagged these beautiful prints by artist illustrators who I love:

Check out annasteinberg.co.uk & marcellehanselaar.com

New Inks!

Mmmmmm!

Learning to Love Landscapes

Playing about with the visual style that I developed in December, I'm trying to learn to love landscapes. I don't like drawing hundreds of trees -I bloody hate it, so with this way of printmaking hopefully I can make it enjoyable! The top two are inspired by a visit to the Russel Coates Museum and Art Gallery, and below is a copy of Raoul Dufy's Racetrack at Deauville. And, yep, I have enjoyed doing these..

Culmination

These images echo human experiences, floating somewhere between wonder and fear in an amazing but inhospitable world.