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.

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?

The Enfield and The Leucrota

So here are the first prints of two of the creatures from my Medieval Bestiary, plus one failed one of The Catoblepas.

Enfield

Leucrota

 

 

 

I'm really happy with how these turned out, considering they're my first proper foray in to the world of Lino Cutting (and especially as I did them on my own DIY press ie, me standing on them under a big bit of wood!). The large areas of solid colour didn't work well, however - I don't think my body mass equates to the pressure of a printing press (thankfully) - so I'm adding in a bit more detail to the prints. May also experiment with colour.

Catoblepas

With this one, I thought I'd try a more textured, thicker paper. It did not work, but I still kind of like it.

Overall, I like the outcome and really like the way linocuts look, it's got a very specific and bold quality to the line I like. What do other people think about the process? Do you like it? Or think it's too time consuming / outdated?

More to come, I'm working on the Peryton, and those feathers are taking a long, long time.

Society 6

Some of my work has been selected by Society 6 to be in their shop. I'm not sure how this is different ot where it was before, but it sounds good!

They've chosen

The Ramskull http://society6.com/product/The-ramskull-and-bird_Print

 

The Bow and Butterfly http://society6.com/product/Bow-and-Butterfly_Print 

Fawn and Thistle http://society6.com/product/Fawn-and-Thistle_Print

 

Polka Dots Fill My Eyes  http://society6.com/product/Polka-Dots-rlO_Print

 

and The Peryton http://society6.com/product/The-Peryton_Print

Related to the Peryton print, I've finally gotten round to doing the actual lino prints (in a make shift printing press in my garden) and will be putting these up soon.

Sneak peek:

Bestiary print update

I've finally finished working on three of my bestiary linocuts. Here's some rough rubbings I took to get an idea of what they'll look like finished. I'm feeling pretty positive and excited about them!

Here's the Enfield, Leucrota and Catoblepas.

medieval bestiary II

I've finally finished my essay and cutting the linocuts for doing prints of my animals. In the meantime I have these up for sale on Society 6.

Enfield

Peryton

Catoblepas

Wolpertinger

Leucrota

a medieval bestiary

I posted my sketch of the Wolpertinger earlier and have now done a few more. I'm going on to make them in to linocuts, a technique similar to the woodcutting these original bestiaries would have used. First time with a new techniques, so it's pretty exciting learning new things!

Enfield

Leucrota

Peryton

Catoblepas

Whilst researching these animals, I found out that a lot of them are actually used in some online games? My versions are a lot more sad sap than the ones in the games though! especially my leucrota... The original animals from the medieval bestiaries can be found here.

The Wolpertinger

My first sketch for the Wolpertinger!