Nearly 40 years ago I was asked to make a painting of an owl with a recently caught mouse. I’m not keen on animals, neither for eating nor for painting. Maybe that’s why I have delayed this picture for so long, I don’t like painting.
Anyway, this is how far it’s gone. Tinted graphite pencils on paper, 27 x 38cm.
Today I was cutting the little circles above the moons and below ‘rhaid deall’. All going well, it took most of an Archive Hour on the radio. Then, of course, there’s always a critic who has to sniff around the entire block.
Printing some postcards and a few cards to fold and put into envelopes when they’re dry…
A thought, for those followers who are waiting for a linocut class. The picture shows a block that will be printed in one colour only. The outlines of the lettering have been cut first. At the moment I’m cutting around the holly leaves, not really staying with the pencil lines. Creative cutting?
Watercolour in progress. Might be too cluttered, we'll see…
Yesterday, while leaving the house, I encountered some people who were keen to know if I believed the universe had been designed. They seemed friendly. My thoughts about everything and everyone being accidental probably weren’t the correct response.
Not that this orange cone landed accidentally. Or did it?
Art is everywhere, if you look.
In December 2016, the Welsh Art Therapists group got together for a day out in Carmarthen. They booked a room to make some lino prints at Yr Atom, a Welsh cultural centre which is based at the site of the Carmarthen Journal.
Printing in a newspaper office should be easy, you’d think. Unfortunately the room has been set out for vocal meetings, not for art making. We got around the lack of sink by putting some bowls of water ready for cleaning lino and rollers.
A nice quiet hour of transferring drawings to lino then cutting.
Then some printing. Was that Art Therapy? No.
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