Merry Christmas!!

Sorry for the gap in the writing...busy with family and life mostly!! Just a quick note today to say Merry Christmas. I hope your day has been one spent with loved ones - family and friends. We have had a lovely day with all my boys and my parents with a lovely meal cooked by... Continue Reading →

December 25, 2010 2

New Linocut! Banksia serrata – Saw Banksia with Seedpod

Saw Banksia with Seedpod I have finally finished this Banksia serrata linocut - after designing 1, designing 2, designing 3, carving, printing and last night handcolouring it's done! This was a complex carving but has a more limited palette for colouring. It will be part of the Design Art series.

November 23, 2010 2

Designing – Redesigning and ‘Re-tweeking’ Linocut Designs

Sometimes I do some drawings and leave them in my sketchbooks for later reference. Likewise with some linocut designs - for a number of reasons including not being fully happy with a particular design I will set them aside. In the case of two new designs this is what happened. I had worked up both... Continue Reading →

November 12, 2010 4

and PRINTED!!! Linocuts to Linoprints

Just finished printing the last 3 designs I carved. After getting all organised to start early this morning in my old printing clothes I went to the paper drawer to find what I thought was a packet of the particular acid free rag paper was not the one I was using for this particular series....sigh...... Continue Reading →

November 1, 2010 4

Lino carving methods – carving tools and blades

These are the 4 main sizes of blades I use to carve my linoblocks - they are known as 'V' gauges and are blades designed to push away from you whilst you carve. There are other blades known as 'pull' blades designed to pull towards you as you carve - I have never used these.... Continue Reading →

October 27, 2010 0

Currently carving – some of my lino carving methods No. 3

This is the final result of the carving!! It is the most tedious section of the carving but it means that essentially I will gain the neatest and cleanest edge so that when I roll the ink over the uncarved remaining raised areas of the lino block the ink if applied carefully, evenly and in... Continue Reading →

October 26, 2010 0

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