Tom Pudding Hoist

No 5 Compartment Boat Hoist - Goole
10 colour reduction linocut
290mm x 190mm
Edition of 9.

Finally finished the print of the old boat hoist at Goole docks. This was used for emptying coal barges (the Tom Puddings of the title, think a boat shaped floating skip) into bigger sea going freighters.

Colour 9

Colour 9, printed across the lower half of the block, and combined on the print below.

only a final dark to go now after a little more cutting.

Next colours

Colour 7, printed on its own, and then onto the print.

Next is another, darker grey, Colour 8

on its own and then combined on the print

Onlt two morw colours to go, a darker green and then the final black.

Next Steps

The next few stages are going to look a bit messy as I will only be inking up part of the block. Hopefully all will be pulled back together later. First up is a light green across the lower half of the print.

Followed by a second blue, again across the lower half of the print.

and then a couple of splashes of red.

this looks a bit garish. the next colour, a pale blue green should tone it down.

The next colour should pull the print back together but there is a bit of cutting to do first.

Catching Up

Its been a while since my last post so time for a bit of a catch up. The Holmfirth Art Market last weekend was a hugely enjoyable event, I am only sorry that it has taken me so long to get round to taking part in it. Sales were good and it was a chance to catch up with friends that I hadn't seen since being at Skipton in August. I will definately be applying to take part in next years markets. A couple of days ago I had confirmation of a place at a new event to be held in the walled garden at Temple Newsam house in Leeds next April. I'll post more details about this later.

As for art work, well since my last post I  have finished this.

Towards the Ouse-Old Goole.
12 colour reduction linocut
240mm x 340mm
Edition of 6

and started this.

Colour 1. A pale blue.

Colour 2. A pale grey.

Linocut - next three colours

Three more colours down on the latest print. Each mixed from the original orange colour darkened with increasing amounts of purple.

Stage 5.

Stage 6.

Stage 7.

One more colour to go.

Linocut. Colours 2-4

I added a little red to the original yellow mix used for colour 1 and began defining the sky. I had mixed up a lot of this colour, as after the next stage it will be the only colour used on this print. For each subsequent stage I am going to darken the mix using increasing amounts of purple. But first we need a little blue. This colour only appears at the top of the print so I only inked up this part of the block.

Stage 3 looks like this:

Now back to the orange mixed with a little purple.

Stage 4:

Next Print

Not much to see after printing the first colour. So here is the reference sketch. A quickly scribbled pen drawing of the sunset behind a group of wind turbines near Carlecotes in the upper Don valley.

Not quite sure yet what I am going to do next. I have no firm idea about what this print will look like and I'm pretty much making it up as I go along.

Conisborough Castle

Conisborough Castle.
15 Colour Reduction Linocut. 
270mm x 380mm.
Edition of 4.

Finally finished the Conisborough Castle Print but had real problems with the registration on the final colour. From the ten prints that I started with, I finished with 4 useable prints and this pile of rejects.

Conisborough Castle. Nearly finished.

Another dark green, and then a darker shadow colour.

One more final green, colour 14. This has got far too complicated.

Just the last dark colour to go now.

Back to the castle print

Three more colours added and things are starting to come together.

Then back to a dark green

and then a cooler shadow tone

Slow going

Next two colours a light and then slightly darker shade of green printed in a band across the centre of the block. This is becoming much more complex than I had originally intended.

The next colour printed across the whole block should make all become clear.

Last two colours

Colour 8 is a dark grey. Followed by the final; not quite black dark.

Bridge Chapel-Rotherham
9 Colour Reduction Linocut
280mm x 184mm
Edition of 9. 

Chapel print

Five more colours down and the latest print is almost finished.

Colour 3 . Light Blue

Colour 4. Light Green.

Colour 5. Light Grey, this colour is actually lighter in tone than the green and should really have been printed before it.

Colour 6. A brownish grey to introduce some variety into the stonework.

Colour 7. A dark green. A couple of more darker tones and the print should be finished.

Finishing Off

Next colour is a darker tone of the ochre brown printed earlier and then ....

....the first green, followed by a darker green

and then the final darks to add depth to the shadows on the spruce tree and the bushes on the left.

Near Dunford Bridge
11 colour Reduction Linocut
240mm x 360mm
Edition of 6.

Not much to see yet

A new block inked up and ready for the first colour.

Colour One, a pale cream, with enough of the drawing offset from the block to give some idea of the composition.

Colour Two is the above colour with the addition of a very small amount of Cadmium Red to give a pale peach/pink colour.

Colour Three, again is the above colour with the addition of a little purple.

 

Colour Four, a light blue completes the sky and adds shadows on to the distant hillside. Another snow scene based on my winter sketches from the moors above Holmfirth.

Colour Five, a light brown for patches of moorland showing through the snow on the windblown areas of the moor.

Colour Six, a purplish colour for the distant woodands and base colour for the foreground road.

Colour Seven, slightly darker tone of the above colour for texture on the road surface, to give form to the distant trees and shadow for the foreground tree on the right.