I have had a busy week with work and a million other things
the flu included... we are officially the house of snot I tell you
even poor Barry was almost buried in the great kleenex avalanche of 2016
which means I am squeezing in some lino play where and when I can
I started filming my new upcoming online class last week
and am slowly but surely building it up and it is such a pleasure doing it and immersing myself in all things relief printing after so many years away from it
but I keep getting distracted
for example I am loving the idea of putting down panels of colour behind lino prints
any way to infuse colour into them is a good thing
and I really want to print some using coloured inks... and so many other things
it is like my brain is on fast forward and all my thoughts are sounding like they are in chipmunk voices
In fact I am generally in love with the whole process really
I want to play with some hand colouring as well
not to mention some two piece blocks
and some reduction prints
the mind is boggling like crazy
it is a bit weird how our creative brains fixate on things at times
but it is a nice break away from illustration work
and some watercolour commissions
though the more I do it the more obsessed I have been becoming
These two blocks are my latest project
and happily they are all drawn up and ready to carve
in fact I even got some carving done this afternoon
and I am really impatient to get to them over the weekend
and of course there is printing an edition of this one in the work queue
so I can get it into the online store
and then I want to do a similar one that I can hand colour
so many prints and so many idea and so little time
Happy painting all...xx