Year of Printmaking: Bike Block Printing

 

I made this print as a birthday card for a friend who loves cycling. Block printing using shapes and objects you have to hand (I used a foam circle & a rubber) is really quick and effective. I'm really pleased with how this turned out it made such a quick cute card.

Studio Pouches on Redbubble

Redbubble has released some really great products recently including these studio pouches. Here are a few of my designs that work really well on them:

  Oyster Catchers | Octopus

 

 Snowboarder | Mount Everest

Pink & Black Box Pattern | Skier

Walk Man | Sakura Blossoms

Heart Pretzel | Chrysler Building

Think I might have to get the 'Walden', 'Chrysler' or perhaps the 'Walk Man' design which is based on a photo of a walkway or sidewalk I took in New York, love it!

Year of Printmaking: Self Portrait Linocut

   

As I'm trying to make this my year of printmaking I'll try to post a new print here every Friday, as life can sometimes get in the way of plans it won't always happen but I'll try to do better than last year when moving house really threw off my rhythm for the second half of the year.

I don't think I've done a self portrait since school, so I thought it was a good time to try a linocut version. As I always have my hair tied back and the UK winter entombs you in a big coat, it's only right that my self portrait be that way too.

 

Art to See London 2016

Science Museum: Cosmonauts Natural History Museum: Otherworlds: Visions of our Solar System Tate Modern: Robert Rauschenburg

Barbican: The World of Charles & Ray Eames | Imran Qureshi Leighton House Museum: Pre-Raphaelites on Paper 

Dulwich Picture Gallery: Painting Norway | Winifred Knights ICA: Betty Woodman

I'm a big art fan; I love going to exhibitions, seeing works on the street, travelling to see special exhibitions and walking to local exhibitions; it gives me great joy, feeds my soul and I get inspired by seeing beautiful, challenging, often strange and contradictory works, whether I think it's good or bad, it always makes me feel alive.

Over the last few years I've done quite a few blogposts of art to see around the world {here's a few of the most popular ones- Europe Part 1, Europe Part 2 and Asia ) & this year I'm going to do a monthly series of them throughout the year, this time focusing on cities. As I'm planning a London trip in February it's the perfect place to start.

Tate Modern: Calder |  Mona Hatoum |  Georgia O'Keefe

Whitechapel Gallery: Mary Heilman | Guerilla Girls Hauser & Wirth: Tetsumi Kudo

Royal Academy: Ann Christopher |  Painting the Modern Garden Alan Cirstea: Gabo's Monoprints

Where to next?

Year of Printmaking: New Year, New Project

 

   

This year I'm going to make it my 'Year of Printmaking' so to start I'm doing a monthly calendar project where each print represent that month; it may be a specific event I'm looking forward to, like this month or who knows what as the project develops. To kick off January I've looked to the Quadrantids Meteor Shower which can be seen on 3-4th January (weather depending, no more rain please!) 

 

I also did a colour version to work as a free phone wallpaper (just right click & save this version) These prints are now available for sale in my etsy shop & I will collect them all into a calendar for next year!

Happy New Year 2016!