Recent work

Over the past few weeks I have been experimenting with larger scale prints and here are some of the outcomes:

I have also completed the following print which is now available to buy on my Etsy:

My tools

My tools
Linocut with hand drawn detail

Linocut with hand drawn detail

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...

Stop motion making

Making a sheet of wrapping paper from David Stelfox on Vimeo.

A mini-photo essay: wrapping paper, from conception to completion

As a way to get more inspiration, I spent a couple of days doing a two minute drawing exercise. I set myself a couple of basic rules (two minutes, each drawing unique and no more than two colours) and each hour I did a drawing. The picture above is some pages from my sketchbook.

From my sketchbook I drew the pattern out onto graph paper.

I used graphite paper to transfer the image from the graph paper to the lino block

The cut block.

Laid out materials: brown paper, rollers, lino block, ink, plastic thing for spreading out ink

Printing in progress

The finished sheet

Close up of the finished design

Weekend plans

Got a busy weekend planned; full of printmaking, market stalls and exhibitions. Tomorrow is a day of printmaking and then a stall at Barboot in the evening. Barboot is a market in Crouch End, north London, where local independent shops open up in the evening and are filled with craft stalls. It is going to be the first time we have done it and it is pretty exciting. It runs from 19.30 to 22.30.

Saturday and Sunday, we're going to have a stall at the Cabbages and Kings market in Stoke Newington. Last time we did this market there was some amazing stuff there and I am looking forward to seeing what the other stallholders have this time too. It is open from 11.00 to 17.00 on both days.


Then finally on Monday we are going to have a gallery day in central London bopping around on our bikes and visiting some exhibitions. So far we have the Treasures of Heaven and Australian Prints at the British Museum, and Tracey Emin: Love is What You Want at the Hayward Gallery. If there is anything else you think we should be visiting which is on in London at the moment, let me know in the comments.

'Mingmarriya', 1997, by Queenie McKenzie