Seagfried and Friends

I've not been keeping this blog up to date recently, but will try and do better from now on!

For the past month our limited edition screen print has been on sale at the Turner and on their online shop.

It turned out to be a fairly big piece, just under A2 in size. No wonder my arms and shoulders hurt so much after printing them!

You can buy the print and also the matching series of greetings cards at the Turner or on their online shop: here

A Flock of Seagulls

Tomorrow I'm going to be screen printing a new design by Fawn and Thistle (myself and Sangita Southgate), specially commissioned by the Turner Contemporary to tie in with their upcoming Helen Frankenthaler exhibition this January http://www.turnercontemporary.org/exhibitions/making-painting-helen-frankenthaler-and-jmw-turner

For this, there has been quite a few bird illustrations going on:

 

Also starting to think about screen printing t shirts in the near future, mainly because I really want a bear tshirt....

Final MA Work

My final pieces for my MA are now framed and up, ready for the degree show exhibition in a couple of weeks.

The East of the Sun one also comes in a gold version. I'm pretty pleased with them, though I could quite happily not look at them for a few weeks, so stressful!

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 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.

The Six Swans and Seven Ravens final screenprints

I finally got a chance to get my final screen prints scanned in and here they are. They will soon be available to buy in my online shop (once I've created an online shop!)

It's a shame a picture can't convey just how special the hand finishings of gold leaf on the petals are, they really shine in light!

The Print Blog

I got a nice little mention over at The Print Block's blog here.

The Print Block is the screen printing studio I'm currently a member of. It's run by the lovely Suki and is located right by the beach.

Grimm Screenprints

The screen prints before the finishing touches are added.

The six swans screenprint

Another instagrammed detail of my second piece hanging at the exhibition. Better quality scans to come

MA Illustration Interim Show.

Along with around 25 other Illustrators from my MA course, I will be exhibiting some work at The Beach Gallery next week.

Check out the other illustrators on the website or join our Facebook. I will be exhibiting my two new Fairytale screenprints.

Here's a sneak peek:

 

On a side not, my friend will be teaching me how to properly photograph things, so there will be no more shoddy photos on this blog!

An Unkindness of Ravens

Here's all the sketchbook work for my next fairytale print The Seven Ravens. I love the fact that a group of ravens is called and unkindness or a conspiracy.

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.

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.

New Screenprints

So here's some better images of the screen prints currently being exhibited at the Silent Auction at the Abbey Tavern.

I changed my image from the penguin book design cover because I thought it'd make a good print and am considering making a series of these kind of images based on various stories

Silent Auction

My work is going to be exhibited in the upcoming silent auction taking place at the Abbey Tavern in Kentish Town this week. I've out in 4 original screen prints and one original drawing (sorry about the bad photo quality! I had to photograph them in my dim basement flat once framed!)

 

Howling at the moon...

So, here is my first ever relief print. Relief printing is a nice technique, just using sharp tools to scrape in to lino is kind of therapeutic.