Year of Printmaking: Unfinished/Finished Monoprint

 

Some monoprints & moments are meant to be unfinished & incomplete. . . 

Year of Printmaking: Tennis

May-August is definitely the height of the tennis season with Roland Garros, Wimbledon, Davis Cup & this year the Olympics. So this month's print highlights my favourite tournament, Wimbledon! I can't go & queue up this year so I'll just have to watch loads on TV with Pimm's & strawberries on hand!

Year of Printmaking: Starfish & Coffee

I'm still only listening to Prince, with his huge back catalogue there's so much variety of greatness, he truly is a once in the whole lifetime of this planet, truly unique artist and creative force. My favourite tracks change on a daily basis, here's a few of my lesser known favourites in this moment: She Gave Her Angels, The Truth, Race, Mountains, Head, Dolphin, Crucial, The Ladder, God, Bambi, The Holy River, Black Sweat and the Cream -acoustic live on VH1 unplugged shows off his abundance of sweet playful charm perfectly.

For this weeks print I did a tiny Starfish & Coffee linocut, see his cutest performance of it on the Muppets Tonight:-

Year of Printmaking: Trees out the Window

Mini print this week, looking out the window at winter trees (which now have burst into full bloom).

Year of Printmaking: Maypole

I'm a bit late with this months calendar print but here's some funky Maypole dancing for May.

{Also see January, February, March and April}

Year of printmaking: Window/curtain

I've been working on some sketches & paintings of windows lately looking at the division between outside/inside, secure/insecure, private/exposed. . . So for this weeks print here is a linocut sketch of my window/curtain to the outside world in that moment. 

Year of Printmaking: Grey Monoprints

Quick series of grey monoprints, might become backgrounds to be developed into something else....

Year of Printmaking: Purple Rain

I'm still feeling purple after last weeks news of the death of Prince & I've been in a purple fog of his music, tributes, videos & films. I've been listening to this great list of tributes, radio shows & videos done by the BBC & Rolling Stone has some other great ones.

So this week I only had time for a quick purple rain linocut print. Stay Purple & Yourself.

Year of Printmaking: Prince

 

Wearing purple & listening to prince on repeat while printing this mini portrait of Prince today. Thanks for all the funky music, fashion, soul, individuality, creativity, sexiness, weirdness & you being you. 

Year of Printmaking: Lemon

I love how linocuts can be so quick to do and look really effective, like this little lemon for this weeks print. What's the perfect accompaniment to a lemon? Gin & Tonic! 

Year of Printmaking: Abstract window monoprint

 

When I don't have much time a monoprint is so fun and quick! Here's an abstract window for this weeks print in my year of printmaking project.

Year of Printmaking: April Rabbits

Spring is slowly starting to spring & for my April Calendar Print this month I've done a linoprint of some jumping rabbits with cotton-ball tails, running through the spring grass.

See my January, February & March prints, I have now finished a quarter of my calendar which I will collate into a complete 2017 calendar available in my etsy shop around October!