Tiger cat

Posted on January 6, 2023 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Carving, Cat, Design, Fun, Learning, lino cut, Pattern, Printing, tiger cat2 Comments

Lino cut cat from last year. The curve at the back could be from a snail shell. This is another technique I would like to pramore this year. I think I will try and create card sets, hopefully without cutting my fingers. You also have to remember to carve back to front or letters are the wrong way round. If you have ever tried this you can feel the carving tools slipping on the surface of the lino. You have to push quite hard to cut down into it but not too deep or you can split the lino. The kit I bought had a safety carving blade which is the safest way to carve. I look forward to doing some more.

A little jigsaw

Posted on November 25, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Box, envelope, Fine Art, Jigsaw, Life, Painting, Poppy, Present, Print, Printing, Wild flowersLeave a comment

One of my paintings has been turned into a little jigsaw by the gallery I have it in. I need to decide whether to order a few off them. I’d like to get some flat boxes to put them in so I can have a picture on the front of the box. Probably unrealistically expensive but I think it would look nicer in a box than just a plastic bag? I need to find out about sourcing something. Maybe a strong envelope?

Bright

Posted on August 13, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Craft, Design, Digital drawing, digital modification, Fun, note cards, Pattern, Printing, ThinkingLeave a comment

Colourful patterns swirling round and merging. It could be alien or insect. Maybe a design for fabric or a stained glass window. I like complexity, I don’t know if something like this would be a good idea for printing onto a note card?

I have talked about doing this before but have never been organised enough to do it. I have lots of ideas but I think I need some expert advice. Which are the best sites to get things printed at? I need quality prints, but not too expensive. I found a shop that might do it but I haven’t got the money to do it yet…

Linocutting

Posted on June 30, 2022 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Arts and crafts, Black and white cat, Cat, Life, linocut, Printing, Tuxedo cat5 Comments

I’m going to do some cards using this linocut for a craft fair I’m thinking of doing. I wonder if this is to quirky and should I try different colours. Perhaps gold or bronze instead. If I also get envelopes it might make an interesting card. I hoe cat lovers will like them.

Black ink

Posted on May 17, 2022May 17, 2022 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged black ink cat, cat in a garden, Creative, ginger cat, Life, lino cut, lino print, Printing, tiger catLeave a comment

‘Tiger Cat’, a lino cut I have done, well finished off, today. The top is the lino block and the bottom is the print in black ink onto hand made paper. I’m going to get some blank cards and envelopes and print a few cards off. X

Pattern

Posted on May 16, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white drawing, Clothes, Life, Printing, printing site, Sketching, Surface patternLeave a comment

I keep thinking I should use some of the patterns I draw and paint to create prints on fabric, I’ve certainly done enough over the years. I even have a pair of trousers with a similar pattern on them. I don’t know if I should try one of the online sites to do this, but I don’t know if they would print them well enough. I once bought a dress and a cardigan with a Gustav Klimpt painting and a Van Gogh painting on them, both were really blurred when I got them. I only wore them once, (not thrown away though). I was really disappointed.

Cats

Posted on May 14, 2022 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic, Analogue, Art, Black cat, Cards, Cat, Crafts, Design, Digital, Fun, Ink, Life, Lino cutting, Printing1 Comment

I must do more ‘real’ or analogue art. I mean physical art, not digital drawing or photography. I loved doing these lino cuts as part of my MA final major project. I liked trying to learn a new skill. I could also create cards for sale by doing this. I would maybe use acrylic paints instead of ink? Then I could play with the colours. And by using a lino cut twice but by offsetting the print slightly I could get interesting fringes of colour around the images. Lots of ideas. I just need to do them.

Lino, cut

Posted on April 25, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Dragon, Experiment, final major project, Fun, Ink, lino, lino cut, ma, Printing, ShapeLeave a comment

This is the sheet of lino that I carved out a dragon from for part of my MA final major project. I inked it up and got a reasonable result. I would like to try again and see if I can increase the complexity of the work. Its always good to learn new skills (without causing injury to myself). I don’t know if you can tell but it’s a dragon in flight. There is a girl riding it, the story is she helps it find it’s way home.

Linocut dragon

Posted on April 14, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black ink, College, Dragon, Ink, linocut, novice, Paper, Printing, Project, Sketching2 Comments

I could not sleep last night. Various things kept me awake so I decided to experiment with linocutting and printing till dawn. I tried different paper, adding felt pen under the ink and even printing onto a layer of post-it notes. Not too bad for a novice, I even managed curves and didn’t cut my hand!

One thing I forgot, the print reverses the image, hence my initials are backwards! Duh!

Print or not?

Posted on May 25, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Black and white drawing, Black ink, Drawing, finger print, Printing, SketchingLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was printed. I looked at print on newspapers, printed wallpaper, print on clothes, print on my computer screen. Fonts, colours, text sizes. But I decided to draw a fingerprint instead (not mine, imagined, based on a fingerprint but not something you could track down someone’s identity from). Apparently you can also identify people from their earprints!

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Printing