Cutting out lino blocks
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This week is a lino cutting week - a couple of commissions need doing ahead
of birthdays and Christmas so These will be cut and hopefully printed by
the e...
Now We Are Three
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My gorgeous, clever, artistic, funny, lovely wife, Karen, died on 19th July
2019 at Warwick Hospital. She'd had a successful breast cancer operation
the ...
The Tap Dancing Pigeon of Covent Garden
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Hi Chaps
The Tap Dancing Pigeon of Covent Garden, a lovely book that I illustrated
has now been published!
Pick up your copy now to read about bravery, pas...
Two Seek Adventure
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That Wednesday, Carmen and Carmichael had a field trip to the Villa di
Pratolino near Florence. The class of children rampaged through the
garden's geo...
Samuel Beckett Demo
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There is a step by step of a gouache demo for my FIT class, working mostly
in transparent gouache and building up the layers. Give it a try.
Our house is a very very fine house...
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Well, we're getting there slowly, a few hiccups on the way and the biggest
one is the problem that internal windows that should be rimu are pine. So
that w...
Snickety snick!
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Hello all! Having had one of our mates teach him the rudiments with a
plastic lightsaber, my son has taken to fencing. Whenever we've had a
spare Saturda...
New Tumblr!
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Check out my Tumblr! The plan is to fill it with all my work until it's
caught up, starting with the old stuff first. So if you start following it
now y...
Postcode Lottery
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We hear about the postcode lottery all the time. "I can't get the same
health care as those people in a different area - it's a postcode lottery."
or "My c...
First colour
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Block's cut for the first colour. The cut away areas will remain white when
I print. I've chosen a fairly neutral colour scheme and the first colour
will ...
This is the End
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Well, kind of.
I've been giving this a lot of thought lately, and feel like I need to
simplify things. Partly this is because I'm super busy doing freelanc...
One hour sketches
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*The bigger the format, the longer it usually takes me to do a sketch. This
one on my bigger Moleskine (spread=10 x 8...
I like it. But not sure I should be your benchmark.
ReplyDeleteLOVING these color experiments! It adds a whole new dimension!
ReplyDeleteDitto for the above. I may not have an artistic bone in my body but I know what I like!!
ReplyDeletePink, blue and beige all over the drawing, but the centre of the composition is still the face. Perfect!
ReplyDeleteI love the swatches of color hovering over the ink details, lovely!
ReplyDeleteReally spurred on by all your comments. Your brilliant responses have got my juices flowing, - as my old Art Teacher, Mr Chalk ( !!! ) used to say.
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