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 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 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.

The Six Swans

I've started working on a series of screen prints for various Brothers Grimm stories. Here is the drawing for the Six swans, and a quick colour test I made in photoshop, do get an idea of what it'll look like with colour.

Seven Ravens is next!

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!)

 

Screenprints for sale soon

Here are some of the screen prints I will be selling soon, some of them new designs, some of them old. Shop will be up and running soon hopefully!