house for sale!

i'm happy with this re-worked version of my house block print with 2 layers - this is how i was thinking of the 'trees' originally.
it's called 'our weekend house' and it has made it to the shop.
hope you like it :)

house work

today i have been fixing up my house – i've re-done this carving to allow for the design feature i originally wanted to include. it's getting there. this is a test run - i hope to make some real ones tomorrow.

weekend's work

a new digital print for the shop. the waves are made with a rubber block on a pencil background and the sun and moon are done in photoshop. so a mixed media print print . . . tags get confusing here. i like the simplicity of the rubber block. i've used oil paint to make images like this in the past with semi-transparent white layers. the focus there was on the texture and overlapping of layers where here it's about the lines and simplicity.



here are some more block prints i did on saturday. i made some of the combi too but the lines need more work, they filled in a bit too much. with these ones i experimented with the background layer – the grey one is pencil. i like the colour but it's not so perfect as a print! the green ones have an acrylic paint layer which helps the print. in the bottom image i've added the 'leaves' in photoshop. i'm getting a little closer to the image i had in mind at the start but would like to use a hand-made layer for the leaves. i might try sponge stamping . . . maybe next weenkend.
happy monday, or mumday as we call it :)