Duvet Week

That’s allowed? Right!

This week Ive decided to have a major snit at the world, or maybe its the last of a major Easter egg hangover …

All cats, at night, are grey

This print didn’t get this name until pretty near the end of the process.

This half term was relief lino printing. Which I’ve never really been successful will. So working from a familiar image I made my first reduction print…

Dust Pan and Brush

Now that the house has been rejigged I am trying to use the stuff that Mum squirrelled away for a better time.

This is one of several dust pan sets she owned. It’s Italian, and i think specifically for tidying up pasta making. — that was the kind of thing she did, come back from a continental holiday with a suitcase full of domestic fripperies.

Well its not hidden in a draw now – its ready waiting to sweep the crumbs off my shiny new counter. The one thing i splurged money on.

MER

History in a Box

This hand made box is about a foot high and when full surprisingly heavy. Usually it lives on a shelf undisturbed, but conscious of new house/new habits I sorted through it and recorded the contents.

The family coin collection is kept in it. I don’t think there’s anything terribly valuable there but it hints at things that my family have lived through.

Busy Busy

Apologies for the radio silence.

As well as freaking out over one year anniversaries and stuff I’ve also got the builders in.

And Now for some Mountains

For a bit of light relief I signed up for a short course in Advanced Japanese wood Cut. And then I mislaid the prints. So four months later you get half a post, because I i found the prints, but not the notes so I can’t tell you the proper names for all the snazzy techniques we were introduced to…

Refurbishing Eden

So one of the many things i am working on is sorting out the house. Which means different furniture and trips to big box stores.

Which leads to little boxes, and littler boxes within them.

They might end up as some kinds of colourful wall construction or they might end up in the recycling with the rest of the cardboard.

Ill keep you posted

MER

I ent dead

And here’s a painting to prove it

RIP Brian the cat

My helpful assistant of many blog posts took against the big snow we had here. His ashes were scattered in the wild bit across the road where he spent many happy hours ignoring the lure of the cat treats.

amongst the household the amount of minor injuries will plummet.

So it goes

MER

A larger fence that still stops

I cut a new plate of the same subject. to give more space for the fence, or lack of it to breathe. I wanted to see what adding colour would look like.

Here are the final prints on this subject for the moment. One day it would be nice to produce a small edition, once I’ve chosen the colours.