The Peryton: Printmaking Techniques

In continuation of my Bestiary print making project, here are the last two I'll be doing for the time being. I've printed the Peryton as a Linocut and Screen print. They're pretty big, so excuse my photography.

I personally prefer the lino cut, I feel it suits the subject matter more.

A Company of Wolves

I've been rather lax on the blog recently. I'm extremely busy and am coming to the end of my MA...eeek! I think I'll probably have some kind of melt down over the next month.

Any way. here's some preliminary drawings for an upcoming screen print

The book of skulls....plagiarism?

I've put off writing this post for a while, but...what the hell!

I was recently bought The Book of Skulls as a present. It's a lovely book, full of lovely, lovely skull art. I highly recommend it...just look at the cover.

But imagine my surprise when I was flicking though it and came across this image.

(I can't find a better image online)

It looks remarkably similar to something I posted back in 2009. (his was made in 2011). http://kikimcnee.blogspot.co.uk/2009/03/fashion-anatomy.html it was part of a uni project, creating a theoretical fashion exhibition. Ours was looking at how woman altered their body shape through clothing to obtain grotesque shapes that were considered ideal at the time. The illustrations looked at what it would be like if these artifices would look like if the skeleton was actually altered.

This may all just be coincidence, but it's such strange subject matter that it seems too odd...

I've had instances before when I've seen things on clothing and magazines that looks similar and could be dismissed as coincidence, but this is just too weird.

Anyway, I should be in that awesome skull book.

Shameless Etsy shop plug.

So, I've gradually been updating my Etsy shop, and It's finally starting to look respectable. What I'm most excited about are my new pocket mirrors though! Yay for pocket mirrors!

Stag and Swan Pocket Mirrors

Swan Pocket Mirror

A5 Framed Ramskull Print

A4 Nature Girl Giclee Print

Mini Framed Cameo Print

Mini Framed Lovebirds watercolour Screenprint

Mini Framed Love Grows Giclee Print

Mini Framed Stag Giclee Print.

All can be found on my Etsy Shop: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/KikiIllustrations

Mix tape: Trick's That'll Blow Your Mongrel Mind

In an attempt to get some inspiration for starting my big Wolf Alice screen print, I've made a little mixtape (even though my last one wasn't that long ago!) inspired by all things wolfish and lycanthropic.

Tricks That'll Blow Your Mongrel Mind  8Tracks

1. Sam Sham and the Pharoahs - Little Red Riding Hood

2. The Cramps - Teenage Werewolf

3. TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me

4. Dead Man's Bones - Werewolf Heart

5. Florence and the Machine - Howl

6. Fever Ray - The Wolf

7. The Rocks - Save the Wolf

8. The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog

9. Spinnerette - All Babes are Wolves

10. The Ramones - Howling at the Moon

11. Shakira - She Wolf

12. Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf

13. Patrick Watson - Where the Wild Things Are

14. 22-20s - The Devil In Me

15. The Flamingoes - I Only Have Eyes For You

16. DeLooze - Nature Boy

17. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising

18. Cat Power - Werewolf

The Enfield screenprint

As my bestiary project is primarily a project where I'm experimenting with print making, I've decided to turn some of them in to screen prints as well as lino prints. The first one I did was the Enfield.

I'm not massively happy with this, the colours came out less subtle than I was aiming for and the third layer doesn't show up enough, so a lot of the detail has been lost.
Most recently I've done the Peryton screen print which has been far more successful. I'll post it up later.

So, lino or screen print?