Autumn poppies

This is how its looking. I think I'll have a look at the background colour and see how a red might work out.

test prints are go

After a few unfortunate slip ups with cutting, the autumn poppies looking like they might come out ok after all.

cut cut cut

There's something very satisfying  about having a little hill of lino next to you. 

Autumn drawings

Here are some of the drawings I've been doing for my Autumn piece, as you can see its a bit all over the place at the minute, I'm still deciding what the image is going to be of. 

national trust hawkswood

I've been walking around the National Trust's land in Pettswood & Hawkswood for some autumn inspiration

autumn

After the start of Autumn and the change in the weather I started on a new piece inspired by the poppy and September/October time in general. I've been trying to channel the spirits of John Nash, Edward Bawden and Eric Ravillious: the big names in the linocut game. I'm totally in love with these pieces

Ernest Journal Issue 5!

I recently got Issue 5 of the beautiful Ernest Journal in the post today, really nice to see my two illustrations in there on the printed page. Get yourself a copy here.