New Book.

Last year I made a book for an exhibition that I called 'A Book of Beetles'. The same exhibition is on this year, so I have been playing around with gelatin plate prints, hand carved stamps, and small screen prints to make another book, this time encompassing all sorts of different insects and several birds. I've worked for several months on this, but I just can't seem to get very enthusiastic over what I'm producing!

                                                       Above are some of the pages so far.

First Print of 2022.

Having promised myself that I would find time for art immediately after Christmas, the days just rushed by taken up with all sorts of things other than art. Yesterday however I managed to find a couple of hours to make the above print from a weed that we call Shepherd's Purse. The little seed pods do in fact resemble heart shaped purses, and I knew that they would make lovely prints as long as they hadn't dried out too much. Bits always fall off if the vegetation is too dry, but I used them just in time as I did have to remove some little bits from the plate.

Below is the same print but with the colours reversed in Photoshop. In my next printing session I'll try something similar with printing inks in this range of colours, pale blue background, cream, grey and bright blue plants.