Catching Up

Got a bit behind with posting the step by step stages of this print so here is the progress to completion

This is the stage at colour 7, I missed photographing a couple of earlier stages.

Colour 8 adds some purple patches of heather.

Colour 9 some blue shadows around the waterfall. Two more greens then completes the print

Greu Mares Tail
11 colour reduction Linocut
268mm x 170mm

Grey Mares Tail

Two colours printed on this since the last post, colours 3 and 4. I fogot to photograph colour 3, the brighter green. Colour 4 is a darker bluer green. I am trying to create the atmosphere of a northern haze. The sun is directly behind the hill on the left, casting it into a deep blue hazy shadow. In contrast to the strong sunlight and deep shadows on the right.

Colour 5 adds some darker shadows to the left. This looks a bit strong here, hopefully the next colour will push it back a little.

New Print

Not much to see yet.

First colour is a pale warm toned grey. As not much carving was needed for the next colour, this was quickly followed by pale blue.

Any one familiar with the landscape of the scottish borders may already have recognised this.

Kilnsey Crag - Again

Looking South - Kilnsey Crag
13 Colour Reduction Linocut. 251mm x 362mm. Edition of 11.

No step by step stages of this one just the completed print. On the 5th July messers Wiggins and co will come peddling up this road beneath the crag on the first stage of the Tour de France.

Dent

A quiet corner in Dent.
3 colour Reduction Linocut
177mm x 120mm.

Finished the demonstration piece. For me not a typical print, Its only two colours plus black for a start and I don't usually go in for a black outline and border round everything. So alongside my usual work it looks a little strange. However, it served its purpose as a demonstration print, as I printed the final colour as part of my talk last friday at Doncaster Art Gallery. Not being a particularly confident public speaker it was quite helpful to have something to do whilst talking.

Now to get back to some proper work. If all goes well, next week should see a big piece I have been working on finished. It will have to be a full reveal though as I haven't been photographing any of the stages.

Demonstration print colour 2

The second colour for this print is a pale blue, for the sky and cool toned shadows. When over printed on the pale orange of the first colour it looks like this....

All that remains now is to cut away the blue areas and print the final dark as part of my Artists talk at Doncaster Art Gallery on Friday.

Easing back to work

Colour 1.

Unusually for me I have three prints on the go at once. More on the others later, this one is the simplest, two colours plus black. For once I have a plan and I am sticking to it. This is for a demonstration piece, my intention being to  print the final black as part of a talk I will be giving at Doncaster Art Gallery next week. The next colour to print will be a blue for the sky and the colder toned shadows and then a final black to tie it all together. It's a  long time since I made a print using such a restricted  number of colours and it's been quite a challenge to pare everything down and resist the temptation to add another few colours.
The scene is of Dent in the Cumbrian part of the Yorkshire Dales.