Speechless!!

Diddldy Dum...

...Diddly Dee...

Medieval Inspirations sketchbook coming along nicely.

Stretton Sugwas Sampson manikin...

First page...

second page...

so far so good...

lovely bit of lino carving...

...complete with tiny holes to make shaded textured areas...

wonderful.....

Spotted it yet?

Bloody thing's printed BACKWARDS AGAIN!!!

You'd have thought that after making this very mistake with the first angel...

...I'd have learned to reverse the drawing before transferring onto the lino wouldn't you!!?

Bloody well SPEECHLESS!!

.....and feeling a right prat! :-(


C

At Last!! ...a brown print...and an Empress article!

Ink arrived...

...rolled onto lino block...

...printed onto soaked paper...

Ta Da!

First onto plain paper...

then onto paper that had been sprayed with Brusho.

I much preferred the second so set to work with a scissors...

....and glued the result onto some vellum card.

REALLY pleased with results...

...not too "leafy-looking" ?!

So forward march...

... with the Stretton Sugwas Sampson block :-)


And more news...

My first article for Empress Mills can be found here!!

I'm delighted to have been asked to write for them on a regular basis :-)))))

Enjoy!

x C

Finished..and waiting for brown ink to arrive!!

I've finished the block...

...and have to agree with yesterday's comment that the feathers may now look a bit like leaves!!

But...

...this is a learning curve...

..and we'll see how it turns out...

...when the brown printing ink turns up! :-)

Meantime, I'm doing a couple more sketchbook pages...

...on another church we visited last Saturday...

x C