Michael: Ashdown Forest linocut, stage 2

I've printed a blue and green blend on top of the yellow layer. The trees are starting to appear.




That green is a bit bright; hopefully the next layer will calm it down.

Michael: Turning the wheel again

Having painted nearly one hundred pictures for the Ashdown Forest exhibition, I thought I'd exhausted the possibilities of my drawings and photographs of the forest. But looking at them again, this time with my "printmaking head" on, they look different; freshly inspiring. So I've started to make some linocuts of the forest. Here's the first stage of the first print:




Linocut, 10 x 10cm

Actually, that's the second stage. As usual, I first printed the uncut block in off-white; then cut the block and printed a blend of colours on top of the white. The white first coat provides a sort of primer for the paper; the coloured layer then prints more smoothly and evenly. The white of the ink is slightly different from the white of the paper, so it defines the edge of the image more clearly.

There will be two or three further layers on top of these.

Sheri - screen print

This is a bit different from the norm. I got a fab Speedball screen printing kit for Christmas and only just got the chance to use it last night for hubby’s birthday today. I made a stencil, which is the easiest and quickest method and ran off 2 t-shirts. I think it’s pretty cool, hubby doesn’t get retro chic apparently! He’s wearing it though, good on him.

Sheri - Ashdown inspired...

Here's my Ashdown inspired landscape from last night. I think I'll play down the sky a bit more. Lynn, you're right, it's very moody, could possible be taken back a bit. And the skyline may need breaking up a little, but here it is so far.

Lynn - latest flower and glass paintings, two largely finished, one needing a lot more work