Polar bear in Christmas jumper card

My newest Christmas design is now available to buy from my Etsy shop:

Does it get better than a polar bear in a novelty jumper? I doubt it.

Another one to come very soon...

Pattern making

I spent a large part of this weekend making patterns:

My tools

My tools
Linocut with hand drawn detail

Linocut with hand drawn detail

New designs

Spent my Sunday afternoon photographing and uploading a load of new designs. All now available in my Etsy shop:

Anton Stankowski

Something I came across recently while looking through printmaking and linocut tags on Tumblr were the linocuts of the graphic designer Anton Stankowski. They are appearing again and again and for good reason. Amazingly simple geometric designs using black ink make a massive impression. So, so good...

More new designs

Been busy coming up with new designs over the last few weeks and happy to say that the below and more are available on my Etsy, shortly on my Folksy and on my upcoming market stalls.

Richard Bawden

Richard Bawden is an artist with collections held in the V&A and Tate. He combines two of my favourite things: cats and linocutting.

Evening's entertainment

Anti-military poster in Pisa

I saw this poster for an anti-militarisation meeting while in Pisa a few weeks back. I love the passion the imagary depicts. It is probably not an original and may well come from a Mexican artist but kudos for using a woodcut/linocut on a political poster, more of this in London please. I may well be tempted to start attending meetings again if they did.

Geometrics

The result of my adventures into patterns have been some geometric patterns which I have converted to cards and gift wrap to sell on my Etsy. Need some slight tweaking but I like them. Going to try making some large scale prints over the next few weeks.

Tea, cake and linocut

Its a good afternoon!

James Brown

I helped out bhmakes at the Designers/Makers market in Hackney yesterday. One of the other stalls was a printmaker, James Brown, who had some really good linocut posters which I felt evoked propaganda posters with the colours and styles used. I checked out his website today and I absolutely love his geometric linocuts - so inspiring. You should check him out: http://generalpattern.blogspot.com/

Revolutionary Mexican prints

Ignacio Aguirre, Emiliano Zapata, the great leader of the revolutionary peasant movement, 1948, Linocut

Jose Guadalupe Posada, The Skeleton of Pascual Orozco, 1912, Photorelief

Arturo Garcia Bustos, 28 Years of fight against imperialism, 1947, linocut

A little while ago I went to the Revolution on Paper exhibition at the British Museum. I love the idea that art and printmaking were used as a way to communicate revolutionary ideas to the people. It was incredibly inspiring and one of the principle reasons I began printmaking. I would love to be able to produce work which is somewhere near to being this good one day.

Etsy

I have just opened an Etsy shop to sell my wares. You can find it here: www.dstel.etsy.com.

Space

This is something I worked on this afternoon with the idea of making a card and some wrapping paper. Came out pretty well I thought.