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A layered woodcut print of a chicken - in green and pink. The chicken is in a pecking pose and has a shift look
A woodcut reduction print showing two crabs holding holding claws. They are printed in yellow, peach and warm red
The inking up of the final layer of a reduction woodcut print - “love crabtually” showing two crabs holding claws
A large woodcut of a pink pig with intricate “fur” detail. She has lots of tears and very peachy buttocks which she is looking back towards. The tail is printed separately in green
The graphic for this weeks print prompt Monday! It shows three relief print motifs - a rabbit with a long medieval trumpet, a lady doing yoga and a weird bird. From the trumpet the words “print prompt monday” are emanating. In the top left it states that this weeks prompt is “growth” The graphic has an off white background and the details are in a bright red and muted teal.
A picture taken from the viewpoint of the sofa/couch - in front is a tv mounted on a blue wall. Above the tv is a large print of a cat taking care of its personal hygiene while making full eye contact
A Riso print in bright red and translucent blue. In red there is a stegosaurus looking alarmed at a meteorite passing overhead. The text in blue overlaid says “oh heck” in mandarin.
The graphic for this weeks print prompt Monday! It shows three relief print motifs - a rabbit with a long medieval trumpet, a lady doing yoga and a weird bird. From the trumpet the words “print prompt monday” are emanating. In the top left it states that this weeks prompt is “text” ” The graphic has an off white background and the details are in a bright red and muted teal.
A video of Red/pink ink being rolled onto a woodblock of a pig. As the ink goes on lots of detail is revealed in the carving
The graphic for this weeks print prompt Monday! It shows three relief print motifs - a rabbit with a long medieval trumpet, a lady doing yoga and a weird bird. From the trumpet the words “print prompt monday” are emanating. In the top left it states that this weeks prompt is “process ” The graphic has an off white background and the details are in a bright red and muted teal.
A big woodcut block showing a pig
A Riso print of a bag in the shape of a chicken. Printed in seafoam green and fluoro orange
A graphic for print prompt Monday. The prompts are 5th Spring 12th Process 19th Text 26th Growth
Two woodcut prints showing green dogs stretching / the shape of the dog is slightly elongated to emphasise the stretch
“Long otter” Riso print by @strangford.co - the otter in the print is longer than an otter should be. And blue with orange whiskers.
A slightly rotund meerkat sitting like a human. He has two nipples. Over his tail there is a donut with a bite out of it. The meerkat is full of regret
A graphic for Print Prompt Monday - it’s shows three linocut motifs (a bird, a lady in a yoga pose and a rabbit playing a long trumpet). The words “print prompt Monday” are in a cloud as if it’s being produced by the rabbits trumpet.
Handprinted patches (red ink on cream canvas) “our house in on fire” - a grid line Earth with flames in a house outline
The graphic for this weeks print prompt Monday! It shows three relief print motifs - a rabbit with a long medieval trumpet, a lady doing yoga and a weird bird. From the trumpet the words “print prompt monday” are emanating. In the top left it states that this weeks prompt is “Earth” The graphic has an off white background and the details are in a bright red and muted teal.
An unfinished woodcarving of a pig - loads of detail
A large print showing two green fish - the print is rotated 90deg in the image as it is lying on tissue paper to be rolled and packed for shipping
A three layer woodcut print of two shifty pigeons in blue with orange stick legs
The graphic for this weeks print prompt Monday! It shows three relief print motifs - a rabbit with a long medieval trumpet, a lady doing yoga and a weird bird. From the trumpet the words “print prompt monday” are emanating. In the top left it states that this weeks prompt is “favourite piece” The graphic has an off white background and the details are in a bright red and muted teal.
A highly sped up video of loads of fur detail being carved on a woodcut of a pig.
A sea green cat that is slightly misshapen to fit the shape of the paper as if he has been squeezed into a box. His back legs are folded over to reveal lilac toe beans. Shifty eyes as usual.
A sheet of plywood with the beginnings of a pig carved in in fine detail. The finished piece will measure 70 x 50cm
A Riso print of two goats standing side by side face on to the camera - one had longer fur covering its eyes, the other looks straight ahead. They have overly long tongues touching at the tip
A small workstation (plywood, iPad, tripod) set up in a garden on a sunny day
The graphic for print prompt Monday
The Joy based tapestry print hanging on a white wall at the Bristol exhibition
A Timelapse video of the large tapestry print being made.
Four women holding up a huge tapestry style lino print - handprinted with many blocks in warm yellow, red, seafoam green, dusky blue and peachy pink. The theme for the piece was “joy”
A plate - not yet fired - painted with orange underglaze, fading to yellow on the edge of the plate. Shifty eyes have been carved into the clay at the center with feathers radiating from there all the way to the edge of the plate
A graphic to show the prompts for print prompt Monday: 7th: Friends 14th: Favourite Piece 21st: Earth 28th: Portrait
A Riso print of a prawn in fluoro pink and pale orange. The prawn is very simplified in shape and has a smiley face
A clay thrown plated, not fired yet. Painted with underglaze in a blue to turquoise gradient (turquoise in the middle, blue around the outside). The colour is carved away to reveal six cats lounging on a round rug.
A hand with the head and four extremities of a squirrel as finger puppets. The hand is arranged so that the squirrel is waving! It is in purple and dark green in a Linocut style
The graphic for this weeks print prompt Monday! It shows three relief print motifs - a rabbit with a long medieval trumpet, a lady doing yoga and a weird bird. From the trumpet the words “print prompt monday” are emanating. In the top left it states that this weeks prompt is “magic” The graphic has an off white background and the details are in a bright red and muted teal.
A linoprint of a chameleon sitting on a twig. The chameleon is printed in blue and has just caught an insect printed in red.
Me (female, red hat, blonde hair, unenthusiastic subject) holding a large linoprint - a cat printed in seafoam green that looks as though it’s squashed into the shape of a box. The toe beans of its back legs are printed in lilac. Shifty eyes as always.
A large pigeon printed in tonal blue - it’s looking back over its shoulder. The pigeon is quite rotund and has tiny stick legs painted in orange
The graphic for this weeks print prompt Monday! It shows three relief print motifs - a rabbit with a long medieval trumpet, a lady doing yoga and a weird bird. From the trumpet the words “print prompt monday” are emanating. In the top left it states that this weeks prompt is “foliage” The graphic has an off white background and the details are in a bright red and muted teal.
A series of small carved stamps featuring weird creatures - each with a sort of expressionless human face. The top one is kind of a fish, then a moth, then a furry quadruped, then a frog and lastly a lion. The stamps are arranged vertically on the left, the corresponding images they print are on the right. The printed images are alternating teal and orange.
The first part of the video shows ink being rolled on to a woodcut block. It seems to be the outline of a tortoise shell but without much detail - this is because it’s the final layer of a reduction print. The second part of the video shows the paper (with the first four layers already pressed) being placed on top of the block and passing through the press. At the end of the video the paper is peeled off the block to reveal a print of a grumpy tortoise. The print is in tonal blue and measures 70 x 50cm
The graphic for this weeks print prompt Monday! It shows three relief print motifs - a rabbit with a long medieval trumpet, a lady doing yoga and a weird bird. From the trumpet the words “print prompt monday” are emanating. In the top left it states that this weeks prompt is “in progress” The graphic has an off white background and the details are in a bright red and muted teal.
A print of a dark blue owl with its head tilted and holding a wing out to the side
A person (me) standing amongst some wintery looking trees holding a large lino print of an owl.
A roadside junction box, about a meter high and wide - painted so that it has a deep blue base covered with painted bright pink fur. There are eyes stencilled to look as though they’re looking out from under the fur
The print prompt Monday graphic - showing three lino cut motifs (a rabbit playing a trumpet, a lady doing yoga and a weird bird). Out of the rabbits trumpet is a cloud saying “print prompt Monday”. It also includes the theme this week which is “Water”. The graphic is in bright red and teal
A small (less than 10cm tall) relief carving of a rotund frog standing up on back legs. It has a human head.
A picture of a carved woodblock - it’s being used for a reduction print so you can see the block is stained from previous layers of inks. All that remains uncarved are a network of thin lines. You can tell from the bits that have been carved away that it will probably be a tortoise
An open postage box containing a prixel press box inside (is sort of lego-like modular printing system)
A small linocut of a moth with a human head (printed in orange)
The carved woodblock of the print described above
A woodcut print of a two big fat pigeons - printed in tonal deep bright blue with hand painted orange legs - they both look shifty
A hand holding out a carved lino block of a hand. On the lino block hand is a squirrel finger puppet waving at you. Hi!