A drawing from a photo I took in 1995. I scrawled a sketch at the same time but then Firstborn woke up.
Author: berrydaines
Printmaker
Hands
Test prints
Two small lino blocks (10 x 10cm and 10 x 8cm). I found a battered piece of Japanese paper to test them on, maybe the creases will smooth out later.
Soppiness
Optimism
A small print (A6 postcard) that involved a lot of cutting. The background wasn’t planned but cutting lines into lino gets quite mesmerising.
Four and twenty…
…none baked in a pie. A birthday card, drawn with a 4-colour biro on A6 size yellow card. Well, A5 folded in half.
New Year
Midwinter
Linocut 10 x 8cm, linseed oil ink on paper. A fairy light behind the picture for a brighter fire.
Happy Midwinter!
Midwinter Star
While looking for card to print on, I found a long-lost piece of brown lino with a baby carved in a star. My favourite son is 21 so maybe this block has been in a box since we moved away from Birmingham in 1998.
The patterns around the star are made from the zigzagging movements when trying to hack into old lino. I’ll see how it prints later…
Knitting
One of my first knitting experiments, from 1983(?). I liked drawing stuff on graph paper so designing the lettering was enjoyable. Knitting with a few colours became a tangled mess quite quickly. People still advise me to use the yarn from the centre of the ball so it won’t tangle or roll away.
I’ll probably unravel this knitted poetry now, it never became a jumper. Recently I’ve done some more stranded colours. The pale green stripe is not as yellow as the photographs suggest.
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