Starting a new print - at last!!

After taking what seems like an age over framing and other preparations for a number of exhibitions and art fairs recently. It feels good to start work on a new print. Unfortunately my attempts to get to grips with the workings of my new camera are a bit less successful.

The first colour is a pale rose pink.

Art in the Pen - next weekend

Spent this weekend packing and sorting work to take to Skipton next Friday for Art in the Pen. I had some last minute framing to do, but finally all is ready. I've gone for a bigger pen this year. Not because I have any more work than I took last year. But I thought it would be better for people viewing the work if it was hung in a bigger space. Hopefully the extra expense will be justified.  There are 70 artists taking part this year, a wide cross-section of disciplines; Sculptors, Ceramists, Jewelers, Painters and a few Printmakers. I'm looking forward to meeting up again with some familiar faces from last year and meet some new friends.

Northumberland Interlude

Just back from a weeks holiday on the Northumbrian Coast. A family holiday but still had time to get some work done.

Bamburgh Castle from Hackness Rocks.

Pen and  Ink.

29/07/12. 1140am. Flood tide with the sun high overhead above the castle.

Bamburgh Castle.
Pencil and Watercolour. Half hour sketch before the flooding tide forced me to move off the beach.

Juvenile Wheatear and Juvenile Kittiwake.
Braidcarr Point, Seahouses.
Pen and Ink.
29/07/12.

Adult and Juvenile Kittiwakes

Braidcarr Point, Seahouses.

Pen and Ink.

29/07/12.

Black Headed Gulls and Curlew.
Seahouses Harbour
Pen and Ink and Pencil
29/07/12

Sunset over Bamburgh from the Harbour Wall, Seahouses.
2015pm, 29/07/12.

The Gatehouse, Etal Castle.
Pen and Ink.
30/07/12.

The Gatehouse, Etal Castle.
Watercolour.
30/07/12.

Fishing boat returning home. Eyemouth harbour.
31/07/12.
High Tide, 1300hrs.
Pen and Ink.

Male Kestrel, Braidcarr Point, Seahouses.
02/08/12. 2050pm.
Pen and Ink.

Alnmouth Beach
03/08/12.
1500pm, flooding tide

More Catkins

Spring Catkins. 8 Colour Reduction Linocut. 270mm x 180mm.

The colour version of the black and white print in the previous post.Made using the same block.

Catkins

Springtime Fretwork-Rawclife Bridge.
Single colour Linocut. 270mm x 180mm.


Printed the black and white version, with apologies for the poor photography. Now to add some colour.

Exhibition Preview

Yesterday was spent running around, in the morning a trip over to Malton to drop the work off for the Talents Fine Arts Summer Exhibition. The preview is next Friday night - see above for more details. I have two prints in the show. The Lapwings used on the publicity material above and the Nightjar print.

After dropping off the work in Malton it was straight back and over to Holmfirth to collect the work at the end of Holmfirth Artweek. It was a nice surprise to find that I had sold a couple more pieces than I had when I'd visited the exhibition the previous evening.

Change of plan

I know in the previous post that I said this print was intended to be a single colour, black on white print. However, I couldn't resist trying to make a colour version as well. So we will try to make two editions from the single block. With this base colour down I can begin to carve the block. The initial inspiration for doing this print, and more especially for making the black and white version is what will be the contrast between the two halves of the print. The top half will have dark vegetation against light water contrasting with the bottom half of the print which will have light vegetation against dark shadowed water. As I have decided to make a colour version as well there is some work to do on the bottom half of the print to get to the next stage.

On another note, the Summer Print Exhibition at the Calder Gallery in Hebden Bridge which was due to start in a fortnights time has been cancelled due to the gallery suffering damage in the flooding which occurred in Hebden Bridge last weekend.